On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 05:37:22PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:17:29PM +0100, Sergei Antonov wrote: > > Hello! > > I follow this instruction to build Cyrus SASL-2.1.26: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/cyrus-sasl.html > > > > "make -j1" results in a link error about PIC: > > > > libtool: link: gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC .libs/sasldb.o > > .libs/sasldb_init.o .libs/plugin_common.o -Wl,--whole-archive > > ../sasldb/.libs/libsasldb.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive -ldb -lresolv -O2 > > -Wl,-soname -Wl,libsasldb.so.3 -o .libs/libsasld > > b.so.3.0.0 > > /usr/bin/ld: ../sasldb/.libs/libsasldb.a(allockey.o): relocation > > R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a > > shared object; recompile with -fPIC > > ../sasldb/.libs/libsasldb.a(allockey.o): could not read symbols: Bad value > > collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status > > > > What may cause this? > > > The cause is as it says. On 32-bit x86 you can build shared > objects using static libs compiled without -fPIC, on 64-nit x86 you > cannot. I guess that whoever originally updated the book was using > i686. Once upon a time, many packages had similar problems, but most > have now been fixed upstream. > > I did notice that I build it by passing CFLAGS=-fPIC at the end of > my configure command, but I forgot to check if that was necessary > (it isn't a package I _use_). > > My bad, seems something like that _is_ needed on x86_64.
And looking back, we had CFLAGS=-fPIC at the end of configure in BLFS-7.4, but without an explanation. It fell out in r12739 when Fernando applied a fix from Armin. The fPIC seems to have come in at r11674, amongst some tagging for 7.4. I'll put it back, and add an explanation. > > > > And a slight correction: && is missing after "pushd saslauthd" and > > "popd" build commands. > > Yes, for consistency. > > Unless anyone else is interested I'll take a look, maybe some time > this weekend. > > ĸen > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
