Bug 167232

Summary:	x11-libs/gai-0.5.10 -fPIC problem
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Greisberger Christophe <christophe>
Component:	[OLD] Library	Assignee:	AMD64 Project <amd64>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Greisberger Christophe 2007-02-16 17:25:23 UTC

When upgrading the package, the compilation fails complaining about PIC problem.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge x11-libs/gail
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: gai.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `GAI_spaces' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
gai.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status



I found a similar problem in bug #157746.
The solution provided there (unmerging and reemerging) doesn't work here.

Doing "CFLAGS=-fPIC emerge x11-libs/gai" or "CFLAGS=-fpic emerge x11-libs/gai" works, but there is a warning:
 * Your CFLAGS contains "-fPIC" which can break packages.
 *
So I would rather prefer the gai ebuild to manage the pic USE flag.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-16 17:35:21 UTC

Helps to not mangle ebuild names in bug summary; plus this is not keyworded for amd64 at all.

Comment 2 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-02-16 17:49:20 UTC

Not keyworded at all. globally appending -fPIC is not the solution, neither is USE=pic. If you want to get this keyworded ~amd64 you have to provide a patch. See http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/fpic.xml for how to properly fix PIC errors.