When trying to emerge qhull on my amd 64 system I get the following error c++ -shared -Xlinker -soname -Xlinker libqhull.so -o libqhull.so user.o global.o stat.o io.o geom2.o poly2.o merge.o qhull.o geom.o poly.o qset.o mem.o /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: user.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC user.o: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [libqhull.so] Error 1 make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs.... !!! ERROR: media-libs/qhull-3.1-r1 failed. !!! Function src_compile, Line 40, Exitcode 2 !!! emake failed !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Tried to emerge octave-forge with qhull flag set 2. 3. Actual Results: qhull compile would fail with the error message mentioned above Expected Results: emerge completely without errors I am reporting this bug as suggested by the amd64 tech notes (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/technotes.xml?part=2&chap=3#doc_chap9) and a work around is to compile qhull with CFLAGS='-fPIC' included. The emerge then sucessfully compiles
Fixed in CVS :-) Wait an hour, emerge sync and try again...
