Bug 559460 – net-analyzer/wireshark-1.12.7 - ld: dissectors/.libs/libdissectors.a(libdissectors_la-packet-catapult-dct2000.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Alex Orange 2015-09-02 23:21:21 UTC]

I do:

$ sudo emerge -av wireshark

I get the following error message:

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.8.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: dissectors/.libs/libdissectors.a(libdissectors_la-packet-catapult-dct2000.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
dissectors/.libs/libdissectors.a(libdissectors_la-packet-catapult-dct2000.o): error adding symbols: Bad value


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. sudo emerge -av wireshark
2.
3.
Actual Results:  
See error message above.

Expected Results:  
No error message, wireshark installs.

[Comment 1 Alex Orange 2015-09-02 23:21:51 UTC]

Created attachment 410888 [details]
emerge --info '=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.12.7::gentoo'

[Comment 2 Alex Orange 2015-09-02 23:22:22 UTC]

Created attachment 410890 [details]
emerge -pqv '=net-analyzer/wireshark-1.12.7::gentoo'

[Comment 3 Alex Orange 2015-09-02 23:26:32 UTC]

Created attachment 410892 [details]
environment

[Comment 4 Alex Orange 2015-09-02 23:28:23 UTC]

I can't seem to upload my build.log file for some reason. Not sure why but the page just sits there and appears to do nothing. I tried uploading it raw, saw that that was almost 5 MB so then I bzip2'd it to 57k and it still won't let me upload. Let me know how to upload it if you need that file.

[Comment 5 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2015-09-15 03:56:39 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 552440 ***

[Comment 6 Rafał Mużyło 2015-09-21 12:55:52 UTC]

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #5)
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 552440 ***

Interesting conclusion - what seems to have been a linking problem a duplicate of a bug that's triggered at preprocessing stage...

:roll: Still, without the build log, it wasn't getting anywhere.

[Comment 7 Alex Orange 2015-09-28 02:04:12 UTC]

Upon further investigation, I do not believe this is a duplicate. I do not have the qt5 USE flag set, this is not complaining at compile time and it's not limited to gcc-5 and up (as the other bug claims to be).

I would be very happy to upload the build log, I'll give it another try right now, but assuming you don't see anything then it's the same problem as before, I click to upload and nothing happens.

[Comment 8 Alex Orange 2015-09-28 02:05:55 UTC]

Created attachment 413120 [details]
build.log.bz2

[Comment 9 Alex Orange 2015-09-28 02:06:41 UTC]

Hmm, apparently my browser is too stupid to tell me when it can't access the file. Though I could've sworn I bzip2'd it as my user and not root, guess I'm just crazy.

[Comment 10 Alex Orange 2015-09-28 16:07:37 UTC]

Ok, further information: I tried applying the patch from the 	
a2fec21 patchset mentioned in https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11230 . It had no effect.

I've tried removing the qt4 flag (as well as the qt5 flag which was never set in the first place). It still fails.

[Comment 11 Alex Orange 2015-09-28 16:40:16 UTC]

Ok, after trying many things (including a clean configure/make outside of portage) I found the problem seems to be with my use of -O3. I've added a package.env file to handle this for the moment, but what is the long term fix for this?

[Comment 12 Rafał Mużyło 2015-09-29 14:21:47 UTC]

Well, given your tests and the fact that '-DPIC -fPIC' is already passed to the compiler, it doesn't seem to be a build system bug.

You don't seem to have/use ccache either.

Might be a compiler bug then.

Did you try to narrow this down to a specific optimization switch ?

[Comment 13 Alex Orange 2015-09-29 16:32:32 UTC]

By specific optimization switch you mean one of the -fblah-blah switches that's under -O3 but not -O2? No, I did not try that. Is there an easier way (i.e. a tool) to do that then brute force?