Bug 294388

Summary:	games-fps/quakeforge won't build without -fPIC on amd64
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Anton Romanov <theli.ua>
Component:	[OLD] Games	Assignee:	Gentoo Games <games>
Status:	RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Severity:	normal	CC:	brent, cfuga, siarhei.siamashka
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	info

Description Anton Romanov 2009-11-24 10:19:54 UTC

/bin/sh ../../../libtool --tag=CC   --mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -prefer-pic -march=native -O2 -pipe -pipe -Wall -fno-common -version-info 1:0:0 -rpath /usr/games/lib64/quakeforge -module -avoid-version -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed -o cd_file.la cd_file.o  -lm

*** Warning: Linking the shared library cd_file.la against the non-libtool
*** objects  cd_file.o is not portable!
libtool: link: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared   cd_file.o   -Wl,--as-needed -lm  -march=native -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,--sort-common   -Wl,-soname -Wl,cd_file.so -o .libs/cd_file.so
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.4.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: cd_file.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.data' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
cd_file.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Comment 1 Anton Romanov 2009-11-24 10:20:59 UTC

Created attachment 211048 [details]
info

=emerge --info

Comment 2 Brent Busby 2010-06-25 15:04:09 UTC

This looks like a re-emergence (no pun intended) of bug #165523, which similarly caused a failed build because the Makefile was trying to compile without -fPIC.  It seems like there are a lot of places in the Quakeforge code that are like this, since it was originally written for x86 only.

The earlier bug #165523 was fixed by using a patch that FreeBSD's packages are using to fix the same bug in Quakeforge.  Could something like that be done again here with cd_file.so?  I've only recently started using Gentoo heavily, so I don't know where in the ebuild structure such patching would go, to try this myself.  It makes me wonder how many -fPIC's need to be put in there to fix it all.

Comment 3 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-17 11:27:02 UTC

This doesn't seem to be an issue anymore with quakeforge-0.5.5-r2.