Bug 93357 – libungif needs to be built with -fPIC to produce a static library I can link against

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Andrew Fischer 2005-05-20 12:02:39 UTC]

To be able to link against the static libungif from a dynamic library I was
building, I had to re-emerge libungif with -fPIC temporarily added to CFLAGS.
Otherwise the linker returns an error indicating libungif needs to be recompiled
with -fPIC.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge libungif
2. link against libungif.a with a dynamic library you are compiling
3. 

Actual Results:  
bin/ld: /usr/lib/libungif.a(dgif_lib.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local
symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

Expected Results:  
Link without errors

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-20 12:24:26 UTC]

libungif will go to /dev/null soon (see Bug 85720) so I

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-20 12:24:26 UTC]

libungif will go to /dev/null soon (see Bug 85720) so I´d suggest that you use
giflib. 

[Comment 3 Andrew Fischer 2005-05-20 15:14:51 UTC]

Thanks for the info. I'll switch.

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-20 17:06:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks for the info. I'll switch.

To prevent superfluous bugreports - don

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-05-20 17:06:36 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks for the info. I'll switch.

To prevent superfluous bugreports - don´t forget to run revdep-rebuild after
unmerging libungif and switching to giflib. ;-) 

[Comment 6 Andrew Fischer 2005-05-24 09:16:10 UTC]

will do. :)

[Comment 7 SpanKY 2005-07-23 01:21:25 UTC]

libungif is being killed