Bug 532324 – net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-{2.0.3-r1,1.4.16-r2} - ld: libnpcommon.a(utils.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Gary E. Miller 2014-12-11 21:55:40 UTC]

Neither net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-2.0.3-r1, nor net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-1.4.16-r2 will build with USE=mysql

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. USE="mysql" emerge -a =net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-2.0.3-r1
or
2. USE="mysql" emerge -a =net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-1.4.16-r1

Actual Results:  
libtool: link: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DNP_VERSION=\"2.0.3\" -I/usr/include/mysql -I/usr/include/mysql/.. -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -pie -fPIC -Wl,-z -Wl,relro -Wl,-z -Wl,now -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -DNDEBUG -O2 -pipe -march=core2 -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -o check_mysql check_mysql-check_mysql.o  -L. libnpcommon.a ../lib/libnagiosplug.a ../gl/libgnu.a -lnsl -lresolv -L/usr/lib64 -lmysqlclient -lz -lm -lssl -lcrypto -lpthread -ldl
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: libnpcommon.a(utils.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
libnpcommon.a: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status


Expected Results:  
A good emerge.

Builds fine for me with USE="-mysql"

Note: I am using mariadb, not real mysql.

spidey ~ # emerge -pqv '=net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-2.0.3-r1::gentoo'
[ebuild   R   ] net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-2.0.3-r1  USE="ipv6 mysql* nagios-dns nagios-ping snmp ssh ssl -ldap -nagios-game -postgres -samba" 
spidey ~ # emerge --info '=net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-2.0.3-r1::gentoo'
Portage 2.2.14 (python 2.7.7-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.19-r1, 3.16.5-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
                         System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-3.16.5-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5410_@_2.33GHz-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    12304996 total,   4109004 free
KiB Swap:   16777212 total,  16754508 free
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:15:01 +0000
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.24 p1.4) 2.24
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]
ccache version 3.1.9 [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.2_p53
dev-java/java-config:     2.2.0
dev-lang/perl:            5.18.2-r2
dev-lang/python:          2.7.7, 3.3.5-r1, 3.4.1
dev-util/ccache:          3.1.9-r3
dev-util/cmake:           2.8.12.2-r1
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r1
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2
sys-apps/openrc:          0.12.4
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13, 2.69
sys-devel/automake:       1.10.3-r1, 1.11.6-r1, 1.13.4
sys-devel/binutils:       2.24-r3
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.3
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.2-r1
sys-devel/make:           4.0-r1
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.17-r1 (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.19-r1
Repositories: gentoo javer mysql sunrise
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=core2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mirrors.hoobly.com/ rsync://gentoo.gossamerhost.com/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/ ftp://mirror.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/gentoo-distfiles/"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-O1,--hash-style=gnu,--enable-new-dtags"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/tmp/"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/javer /var/lib/layman/mysql /var/lib/layman/sunrise"
USE="X a52 aacplus aacs aalib acl adns aesicm alsa amd64 amr ao archive ares avahi avresample berkdb binfilter bzip2 cairo calendar caps cdda cgroup cli corefonts cracklib crypt cscope cups curl cxx daap dbi dbus dirac dlna dri dvd ecwj2k egl encode examples exif exit extensions faac faad fdk ffmpeg fftw firmware flac fontconfig fontforge foomaticdb fortran fping fpm fpx gbm gcrypt gd gdbm geoip geos gif gimp glamor gles gles1 gles2 glib gml gmp gmplayer gnutls gost gphoto2 gps gs gsm gtk hardened hdf hdf5 hdri hwdb iconv icu id3tag imagemagick imap inotify introspection iproute2 ipv6 jack java jbig jce jpeg jpeg2k json lcms libass libextractor liblockfile libnotify libsamplerate libsecret lxc lzma lzo mad mbox mhash mjpeg mmap mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mtp multilib mysql ncurses netcdf netlink network nfs nfsv4 nfsv41 nodrm nptl nsplugin ogdi ogg openexr opengl openmp openssl openvg opus osmesa pam pango pch pcntl pcre pdf pdfimport pdo perl plotutils plugins png policykit postproc ppds pth pulseaudio python q32 q8 qt3support qt4 rar raw readline realtime rle rpz rrl rtmp scanner schroedinger server session slp smi smime smp sndfile snmp sockets spamassassin speex spell sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 sse3 sse4 ssh ssl ssse3 stats subtitles svg syslog t1lib tcpd theora thin-splines threads threadsafe thumbnail tiff truetype twolame udev unicode upcall urandom usb utils v4l2 vaapi vim-syntax vlc vorbis vorbix vpx wavpack webkit webkit2 wikipedia winbind wmf x264 xattr xface xine xinerama xml xmp xorg xpm xslt xvfb xvid xvmc zeroconf zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en en_US" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon radeonsi vesa intel i965" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, SYNC, USE_PYTHON

=================================================================
                        Package Settings
=================================================================

net-analyzer/nagios-plugins-2.0.3-r1 was built with the following:
USE="ipv6 nagios-dns nagios-ping snmp ssh ssl -ldap -mysql -nagios-game -postgres -samba" ABI_X86="64"

spidey ~ #

[Comment 1 Gary E. Miller 2014-12-11 21:57:18 UTC]

Created attachment 391466 [details]
build.log

[Comment 2 Gary E. Miller 2014-12-11 21:57:39 UTC]

Created attachment 391468 [details]
environment

[Comment 3 Michael Orlitzky 2014-12-13 01:10:08 UTC]

Hmmm I'm also using mariadb, which version do you have installed? Is it possible you got mariadb from an overlay? I see,

> Repositories: gentoo javer mysql sunrise

in your emerge --info.

Another complete stab in the dark would be to remove the "--hash-style=gnu,--enable-new-dtags" from your LDFLAGS and see if that works.

[Comment 4 Michael Orlitzky 2015-08-31 23:38:49 UTC]

Any word on this? Was it an overlay thing? Did it just go away? I'm unable to reproduce it with the versions in the tree.

[Comment 5 abandoned account disabled email 2015-09-01 18:06:29 UTC]

So many (other?)packages are hitting this that I just added -fPIC in make.conf, so far so good.

[Comment 6 Ian Delaney (RETIRED) 2015-09-06 09:08:23 UTC]

(In reply to Emanuel Czirai from comment #5)
> So many (other?)packages are hitting this that I just added -fPIC in
> make.conf, so far so good.

Can you elaborate? Added -fPIC to CFLAGS? What do you mean hitting this? It's apparent the designated is a non participant here.

[Comment 7 abandoned account disabled email 2015-09-06 11:21:52 UTC]

(In reply to Ian Delaney from comment #6)
> (In reply to Emanuel Czirai from comment #5)
> > So many (other?)packages are hitting this that I just added -fPIC in
> > make.conf, so far so good.
> 
> Can you elaborate? Added -fPIC to CFLAGS? What do you mean hitting this?
> It's apparent the designated is a non participant here.

Sorry, I meant that while trying to emerge other packages, without having -fPIC in CFLAGS already, they are failing with the error in the bug title. (using the gcc hardened compiler, not the vanilla one though)

One such package is: gsm
ie. time DEBUG= emerge -nav gsm
(unsure which version but I've currently this one: media-sound/gsm-1.0.13-r1 )

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/5.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: ./src/toast.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `f_fast' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
./src/toast.o: error adding symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:339: recipe for target 'bin/toast' failed
make: *** [bin/toast] Error 1

I don't remember which other packages had this, but at least 3 more, that's why I opted to having -fPIC in make.conf

I have not tested the package mentioned in this bug report (net-analyzer/naglos-plugins...)

I've just retested emerging the gsm package and it worked even without -fPIC in make.conf in which case I've no idea why it failed before, was it a different version at the time? I don't know, equery m gsm shows only one version(currently):
# equery m gsm
 * media-sound/gsm [gentoo]
Herd:        sound ([e-mail])
Maintainer:  None specified
Upstream:    None specified
Homepage:    http://packages.qa.debian.org/libg/libgsm.html
Location:    /usr/portage/media-sound/gsm
Keywords:    1.0.13-r1:0: alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~amd64-fbsd ~arm64 ~mips ~s390
                          ~x86-fbsd
License:     gsm

OH WAIT! this is why it works(for me) now: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554358#c6  (added -fPIC in its ebuild via /etc/portage/postsync.d/ patching)

Cheers.


Here, I give you my current emerge --info as is right now (I put back -fPIC in make.conf ):
# emerge --info  media-sound/gsm
Portage 2.2.20.1 (python 3.4.3-final-0, hardened/linux/amd64/no-multilib, gcc-5.2.0, glibc-2.21-r1, 4.1.6-hardened-r1-g45b4b78 x86_64)
=================================================================
                         System Settings
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-4.1.6-hardened-r1-g45b4b78-x86_64-AMD_A6-3400M_APU_with_Radeon-tm-_HD_Graphics-with-gentoo-2.2
KiB Mem:    10809864 total,   4646204 free
KiB Swap:          0 total,         0 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 06 Sep 2015 00:45:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p42
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1
ccache version 3.2.3 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p42::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.22.0::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.10::gentoo, 3.4.3::gentoo
dev-util/ccache:          3.2.3::gentoo
dev-util/cmake:           3.3.1-r1::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r3::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.2::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.17::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.6-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.13.4::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.25.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            4.8.5::gentoo, 5.2.0::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.8::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.2::gentoo (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/glibc:           2.21-r1::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    priority: -1000

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="@FREE"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -ggdb -fvar-tracking-assignments -fno-omit-frame-pointer -ftrack-macro-expansion=2 -fstack-protector-all -fPIC"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=native -ggdb -fvar-tracking-assignments -fno-omit-frame-pointer -ftrack-macro-expansion=2 -fstack-protector-all -fPIC"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache cgroup collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distlocks downgrade-backup ebuild-locks fakeroot fixlafiles force-mirror installsources ipc-sandbox merge-sync multilib-strict network-sandbox news nostrip parallel-fetch parallel-install prelink-checksums preserve-libs sandbox sfperms split-elog split-log strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-backup unmerge-logs userfetch userpriv usersandbox webrsync-gpg"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.romnet.org/gentoo/ http://tux.rainside.sk/gentoo/ http://de-mirror.org/gentoo/ http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/opsys/linux/gentoo/ http://www.las.ic.unicamp.br/pub/gentoo/"
INSTALL_MASK="/lib/systemd /lib32/systemd /lib64/systemd /usr/lib/systemd /usr/lib32/systemd /usr/lib64/systemd /etc/systemd"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
MAKEOPTS="-j4"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext X acl amd64 berkdb bindist btrfs bzip2 cli consolekit cracklib crypt cryptsetup cscope cxx dbus device-mapper dri egl extensions gdbm git gpg gpm gtk3 hardened iconv jpeg justify lock mmx mmxext modules mosh-hardening ncurses nptl openmp pam pax_kernel pcre pie policykit pulseaudio qt4 readline seccomp session sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssp startup-notification strong-security system-icu system-jpeg system-libvpx system-sqlite urandom xattr xcomposite xtpax zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump author" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="3dnow 3dnowext mmx mmxext sse sse2 sse3" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ublox ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard virtualbox evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-5" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby19 ruby20" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="virtualbox" XFCE_PLUGINS="brightness clock trash battery power" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
USE_PYTHON="2.7"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

=================================================================
                        Package Settings
=================================================================

media-sound/gsm-1.0.13-r1::gentoo was built with the following:
USE=""

[Comment 8 Michael Orlitzky 2017-07-23 13:55:25 UTC]

Adding -fPIC shouldn't have been necessary here, but something else probably got messed up on the user's system and I doubt this had anything to do with nagios-plugins. Since the reporter's account is disabled, I'm marking this NEEDINFO.

[Comment 9 Gary E. Miller 2017-07-23 17:09:08 UTC]

(In reply to Michael Orlitzky from comment #8)
> Adding -fPIC shouldn't have been necessary here,

Necessary?  Probably not, but more and more it is considered good security
practice.

> but something else probably
> got messed up on the user's system

If so, this was the only package affected.

> and I doubt this had anything to do with
> nagios-plugins.

Except that the only thing affected was nagios-plugins.

> Since the reporter's account is disabled,

Say what?  I've been here all along.

> I'm marking this NEEDINFO.

I would be happy to drown you in info.  But this bug is now three years old, and the stable package is still at 2.0.3-r1, so clearly no one cares about it.  I moved on a long time ago to net-analyzer/monitoring-plugins.  So don't bother to reopen this on my account.

[Comment 10 Michael Orlitzky 2017-07-23 17:50:00 UTC]

(In reply to Gary E. Miller from comment #9)

Oh, sorry, I confused you with the author of comment #5 who said that it was happening with a lot of other packages. Usually in that case, your toolchain is messed up and you have to do something drastic to fix it.

I agree it's a good security practice -- I only meant that the build system should take care of adding -fPIC for you, and you shouldn't have to do it yourself. Does the problem persist?

[Comment 11 Gary E. Miller 2017-07-23 18:28:30 UTC]

(In reply to Michael Orlitzky from comment #10)
> (In reply to Gary E. Miller from comment #9)
> 
> Oh, sorry, I confused you with the author of comment #5 who said that it was
> happening with a lot of other packages. Usually in that case, your toolchain
> is messed up and you have to do something drastic to fix it.

If it was the usual, I would not have reported it.

> I agree it's a good security practice -- I only meant that the build system
> should take care of adding -fPIC for you, and you shouldn't have to do it
> yourself.

Yes, and things are getting better.

> Does the problem persist?

I moved on to net-analyzer/monitoring-plugins years ago.  I just removed monitoring-plugins, and emerged nagios-plugins just fine, so the problem appears gone (at least for me) now.  

With that, I'm going back to monitoring-plugins.

[Comment 12 Michael Orlitzky 2017-07-24 02:25:27 UTC]

(In reply to Gary E. Miller from comment #11)
> 
> > Does the problem persist?
> 
> I moved on to net-analyzer/monitoring-plugins years ago.  I just removed
> monitoring-plugins, and emerged nagios-plugins just fine, so the problem
> appears gone (at least for me) now.  
> 
> With that, I'm going back to monitoring-plugins.

Ok, thanks for testing. If you agree, I'll mark this as fixed or obsolete for now.

You have my apologies for letting this slip through the cracks for so long. I took over maintainership of nagios-plugins, but never assigned this bug to myself and it looks like I forgot to add myself to CC when I commented way back in 2014. I only picked up on it again recently because Jonas noticed it was mis-assigned and fixed it.

[Comment 13 Gary E. Miller 2017-07-24 05:56:46 UTC]

(In reply to Michael Orlitzky from comment #12)
> Ok, thanks for testing. If you agree, I'll mark this as fixed or obsolete
> for now.

Fine by me.

 
> You have my apologies for letting this slip through the cracks for so long.

No worries.  So many bugs, so little time.