Chris Gorman wrote: > To fix apache from failing to load mod_auth_mysql.so, the library it's linked > against, libmysqlclient.a, has to be rebuilt pic. This is the same problem > php3 suffers from and mod_auth_pgsql.so. Specifically, the distance the PC > needs to longjump to load a symbol is greater than the distance it can be told > to longjump by the R_ARM_PC24 reloc.
Why on earth is a shared lib linking against a static lib? We had this problem before with ORBit, which was building its shared libs from static ones. The solution was a pretty messy edit to configure.in and a Makefile.am to recompile all objects -fPIC for the shared libs. Sounds like this may be required here too. Scott Bambrough wrote: > > 3) I'm not aware of any problems that will be caused by having all > objects > > (and hence libraries) made position independent. > > Poorer code generated for static executables; useless register loads. > Results in a performance penalty, larger code size. This is why Debian policy requires shared objects to be built with -fPIC, static without (section 4.2). If something is not being built this way, a bug report would be in order. -Adam P. Welcome to the best software in the world today café!
