When I try to emerge mysql-4.0.20.ebuild. I can get it to start emerging the package but it gets almost all the way complied and it dies Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge mysql 2. watch emerge mysql try to complie 3. see relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC error /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: .libs/libmysql.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC .libs/libmysql.o: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [libmysqlclient_r.la] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mysql-4.0.20/work/mysql-4.0.20/libmysql_r' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/mysql-4.0.20/work/mysql-4.0.20' make: *** [all] Error 2 !!! ERROR: dev-db/mysql-4.0.20 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 156, Exitcode 2 !!! compile problem
amd64: what's going on here?
I have fixed this... I think it was a problem with my make.conf config file. It seems to be installing now fine. Sorry for the confusion