Bug 94766

Summary:	sys-libs/db : 4.2.52_p2/4.3.27 : relocation errror with gcc 3.4.4
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rodolphe Rocca <rodolphe.rocca>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	amd64
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rodolphe Rocca 2005-06-01 12:57:42 UTC

Can't compile berkeley db with gcc 3.4.4 because of a relocation error due to
missing -fPIC C[XX]FLAGS.
By the way, 4.3.28 is out ;-)



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge =sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2 or emerge =sys-libs/db-4.3.27
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
.libs/cxx_db.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `vtable for Db' can not be used
when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
.libs/cxx_db.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

Expected Results:  
emerged !

To solve this I needed :
- to inherit flag-o-matic in the ebuild
- to call "append-flags -fPIC"
I tested this solution only with version 4.3.27.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2005-06-01 15:22:15 UTC

`append-flags -fPIC` is never a good solution

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94692 ***