Bug 211762

Summary:	net-analyzer/flow-tools-0.68-r5 misses -fPIC Flag on AMD64
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jan Gruber <jan.gruber>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	major
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jan Gruber 2008-02-28 14:40:46 UTC

libft must be compiled with -fPIC in order to link against it on AMD64. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Emerge flow-tools-0.68-r5
2.emerge Cflow


Actual Results:  
Cflow.pm cant be build

Expected Results:  
Cflow pm should be build 

--- /var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/flow-tools-0.68-r5/work/flow-tools-0.68/lib/Makefile.am.new   2008-02-28 14:29:25.000000000 +0000
+++ /var/tmp/portage/net-analyzer/flow-tools-0.68-r5/work/flow-tools-0.68/lib/Makefile.am       2008-02-28 14:28:41.000000000 +0000
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@

 #AM_CFLAGS=-g -Wall -Wpointer-arith -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wmissing-declarations -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs
 #AM_CFLAGS=-O2
-AM_CFLAGS=-g -Wall -fPIC
+AM_CFLAGS=-g -Wall

 DEFS=-I. -I$(srcdir)/lib

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-28 14:46:30 UTC

Once again, there's absolutely no requirement to build static libs as PIC; it shouldn't use the static lib but a shared one.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 194957 ***