On a fresh new install of Gentoo 2005.0 on a AMD64 platform, emerging pilot-link (required for gnome) fails with following message: make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.11.8/work/pilot-link-0.11.8/bindings/Java' /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/bin/javac -d . ./org/gnu/pilotlink/AddressRecord.java ./org/gnu/pilotlink/AppInfo.java ./org/gnu/pilotlink/DatebookRecord.java ./org/gnu/pilotlink/MemoRecord.java ./org/gnu/pilotlink/PilotLink.java ./org/gnu/pilotlink/RawAppInfo.java ./org/gnu/pilotlink/RawRecord.java ./org/gnu/pilotlink/Record.java ./org/gnu/pilotlink/SysInfo.java ./org/gnu/pilotlink/User.java ./test.java x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -I../../include -I ../../include -I ../../include -I /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/include -I /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.01/include/linux -L ../../libpisock/.libs -lpisock -shared -o libjpisock.so ./libjpisock.c /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.11.8/temp/cc556jfA.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.11.8/temp/cc556jfA.o: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[3]: *** [java_lib] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.11.8/work/pilot-link-0.11.8/bindings/Java' Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install gentoo 2005.0 on AMD64 system 2.Include 'pda' in USE flags 3.emerge gnome or emerge pilot-link Actual Results: emerge fails and gnome cannot be installed. I have a PDA so pilot-link is required.
"USE='-java' emerge pilot-link" seems to solve this problems. According to the forum it's a known bug, but I could not find it in the buglist: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-315044-highlight-pilotlink.html?sid=2b92b3a8f0658a2be8c6fc62af851f42
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87774 ***
this is not a dup of bug #87774, but does probably belong upstream.
