On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 11:02:16PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Package: perdition > Version: 1.17-1 > Severity: serious > Tags: sid > > Hi, > > Your package is is not using -fPIC to make a shared lib. This > does not work on some arches, and results in your package > failing to build: > make[5]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/perdition-1.17/perdition/db/daemon' > gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../../ -I../../../perdition > -I../../../libjain -DPERDITIONDB_BDB_SYSCONFDIR=\"/etc/perdition\" -g -O2 > -c packet.c > rm -f libperditiondb_daemon_packet.a > ar cru libperditiondb_daemon_packet.a packet.o > ranlib libperditiondb_daemon_packet.a > [...] > gcc -shared .libs/perditiondb_daemon.o .libs/unix_socket.o -ldb > -L/build/buildd/perdition-1.17/perdition/db/daemon > -lperditiondb_daemon_packet -Wl,-soname -Wl,libperditiondb_daemon.so.0 -o > .libs/libperditiondb_daemon.so.0.0.0 -ldb > -L/build/buildd/perdition-1.17/perdition/db/daemon -lperditiondb_daemon_packet > /usr/bin/ld: > /build/buildd/perdition-1.17/perdition/db/daemon/libperditiondb_da > emon_packet.a(packet.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a > s > hared object; recompile with -fPIC > /build/buildd/perdition-1.17/perdition/db/daemon/libperditiondb_daemon_packet.a: > could not read symbols: Bad value > > Note that the packet.c did not get build using libtool, > while the rest did. libtool correctly set -fPIC to make > the shared version for the other files that are getting > linked in. > > Policy section 10.2 says that shared libs should be build > using -fPIC and static should be build without it.
Hi Kurt, This bit of code has been highly problematic forever. Thanks for bringing its still-broken state to my attention. I will have another go at rearanging the code. Any suggestions are more than welcome. -- Horms -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
