Source: leveldb Version: 1.18-2 Severity: normal Tags: patch It seems that it may be necessary to build leveldb with -fPIC (again).
During packaging of new upstream release of "litecoin" I attempted to use
system "leveldb" library but compilation failed with the following error:
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/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmemenv.a(memenv.o): relocation
R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object;
recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmemenv.a: error adding symbols: Bad value
~~~~
I've managed to overcome this problem by re-building leveldb with the
following line added to "debian/rules":
export DEB_CPPFLAGS_MAINT_APPEND = -fPIC
I'm not sure if this is the best approach or if there are any drawbacks.
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Best wishes,
Dmitry Smirnov
P.S. According to upstream release notes, new release of litecoin "contains
very important security fixes and all users MUST upgrade to this version as
soon as possible". Considering this would it be possible to handle -fPIC
leveldb issue in a timely manner? Thanks.
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