The current packaging code in our git compiles ok: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-cyrus-imapd/pkg-cyrus-imapd-2.4.git;a=summary
Unless I discover any problem in the package, I am going to include this in the 2.4.6-3 upload. O. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 12:38, Bron Gondwana <br...@fastmail.fm> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:42:16 +0200 > Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> wrote: > >> Just a reply to myself. If called as --with-com_err="" it links with >> shared library just fine and -fPIE -pie seems to compile just OK. I am >> going to test if it runs ok... > > Hmm.. interesting. We run on Squeeze 64 bit on our production machines. > Just going to check how we're building... > > -g -fPIC -W -Wall -fstack-protector-all > > Yep, but no PIE. And that's probably because of the com_err stuff. > > I'll try on my local box (Debian testing) and see what shakes out. > Yep, same issue. Then this: > > cc -shared -O2 -g -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector IMAP.o -o > blib/arch/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.so ../../lib/libcyrus.a > ../../lib/libcyrus_min.a \ > -ldb-4.8 -lsasl2 -lz -lssl -lcrypto \ > > /usr/bin/ld: ../../lib/libcyrus.a(imclient.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 > against symbol `imclient_addcallback' can not be used when making a shared > object; recompile with -fPIC > /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value > > which looks to me like the -fPIC and friends aren't being passed down to > the Perl library generation. > > I'd love patches to fix this. I really don't know as much as I should about > this part of the process. > > Bron. > -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>