Package: libdpkg-dev Version: 1.15.7.2 Severity: normal Tags: patch I am trying to build a shared library where libdpkg.a (from libdpkg-dev 1.15.7.2, installed on Ubuntu 10.04) should be linked into. I get the following error, though:
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/dpkg/libdpkg.a(database.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC This is because the objects in libdpkg.a are not compiled to position-independent code (with gcc -fPIC). I believe that should be done, though, to make using libdpkg.a in shared libraries possible. Attached is a trivial patch that adds -fPIC to CFLAGS. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers lucid-updates APT policy: (500, 'lucid-updates'), (500, 'lucid-security'), (500, 'lucid') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- no debconf information
diff --git a/lib/dpkg/Makefile.am b/lib/dpkg/Makefile.am index 8ce01d8..3c8be1c 100644 --- a/lib/dpkg/Makefile.am +++ b/lib/dpkg/Makefile.am @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ SUBDIRS = test localedir = $(datadir)/locale pkgconfdir = $(sysconfdir)/@PACKAGE@ +AM_CFLAGS = -fPIC AM_CPPFLAGS = \ -DLOCALEDIR=\"$(localedir)\" \ -DCONFIGDIR=\"$(pkgconfdir)\" \
