MySQL is suspected to build its static libraries without -fPIC, resulting with build errors for some packages trying to link statically to them. Prime example is amarok 2 beta (from upcoming KDE 4.2 release, currently in kde-testing and kde-crazy overlay) on AMD64 platform (x86 are unaffected) - that depends on mysql with 'embedded' USE flag enabled and likning statically to it. So far, Gentoo KDE team as a workaround urged AMD64 users to recompile whole mysql with -fPIC (using portage/env way) and we know that it can't be considered permanent solution. Splitting mysql ebuilds to library/server/embedded wouldn't hurt as well but it's separate bug. Error message for amarok on amd64 (provides affected library name and at least one affected .o module): <code> Linking CXX shared module ../../../lib/libamarok_collection-sqlcollection.so /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqld.a(client.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `mysql_server_last_error' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqld.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [lib/libamarok_collection-sqlcollection.so] Error 1 make[1]: *** [src/collection/sqlcollection/CMakeFiles/amarok_collection-sqlcollection.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 </code> Applies to: [ebuild R ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.70 USE="embedded ssl -berkdb -big-tables -cluster -debug -extraengine -latin1 -max-idx-128 -minimal -perl (-selinux) -static" 0 kB
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 238487 ***
