From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 24 07:51:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59DE116A4CF for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:51:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D00D43D60 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@evilpete.dyndns.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 306FB2A8DF for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A630E296 for ; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:51:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2OFp6s1096095; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:51:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i2OFp6Hf096094; Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:51:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter) From: Peter Wemm To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, adridg@cs.kun.nl Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 07:51:06 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403240751.06524.peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: A different buildworld failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:51:54 -0000 On Wednesday 24 March 2004 12:43 am, Adriaan de Groot wrote: > On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Peter Wemm wrote: > > No, you're missing the point. Do not put "-fPIC -DPIC" *anywhere* > > in /etc/make.conf. Do not hack blindly hack ports to compile > > everything with -fPIC (including executables), and yell at anybody > > else who is doing it. > > Arr (in the manner of pirates everywhere). > > > Fix the problem, rather than just plaster over the top of it. That > > means finding out why the port is doing this in the first place? > > Is it just because the author is clueless and accidently forgot > > that shared libraries need to be pic (and got away with it till now > > on i386). Or they are doing it deliberately with --prefer-non-pic > > to libtool (and got away with it until now). Or something just > > went wrong. > > Well, here's the particular instance that caused me to take the road > to ruin: > > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/CORE/libperl.a(perl.o): > relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared object; > recompile with -fPIC > > that's when I was trying to embed a perl interpreter in a C++ .so. Is > that something I should just send-pr and be done with? You should be linking against libperl.so or embedding libperl_pic.a. Except I've just looked and its missing. Argh! I wonder when that happened? I'm sure it was working at one point... Hmm. perl5.8 has a libperl.so and its now the default for 5.x ports.. is that something you can use? -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5