Bug 97094 – pilot-link-0.11.8 fails with "recompile with -fPIC"

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 87774
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description gentooblah 2005-06-26 01:01:21 UTC]

I'm trying to do an 'emerge gnome' on a brand new AMD64 system. When emerging pilot-link, I get this:

Making all in Java
make[3]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.11.8/work/pilot-link-0.11.8/bindings/Java'
/opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/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-1.4.2.02/include                  -I /opt/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.02/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/ccBunnX6.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/ccBunnX6.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'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.11.8/work/pilot-link-0.11.8/bindings'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/pilot-link-0.11.8/work/pilot-link-0.11.8'
make: *** [all-recursive-am] Error 2

!!! ERROR: app-pda/pilot-link-0.11.8 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 57, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)
!!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message.

[Comment 1 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2005-06-26 02:15:16 UTC]

Please search for your bug first, see bug 91668.

[Comment 2 Simon Stelling (RETIRED) 2005-06-26 02:29:28 UTC]

bug 97094 is a duplicate of bug 91668 is a duplicate of bug 87774... strange

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 87774 ***