Pádraig Brady wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> I tried to build on Fedora 10 x86_64 and got this: >> >> /usr/bin/ld: ../lib/libcoreutils.a(quote.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against >> `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with >> -fPIC >> ../lib/libcoreutils.a: could not read symbols: Bad value >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status >> make[3]: *** [libstdbuf.so] Error 1 > > Hmm. There is no real need to link libcoreutils.a with libstdbuf.so. > I had used fprintf(stderr,...) rather than error(..., quote()) > so I'll revert to that. That's better than compiling > libcoreutils.a with -fPIC I think. > > Though not necessary, I'd better also remove the reference to libcoreutils.a > and document that in the Makefile.am so as we don't bump into this in future.
I've updated the patch at the above link to address this, and also added a validation check in the shared lib itself. http://www.pixelbeat.org/patches/stdbuf.diff cheers, Pádraig. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
