Re: R_PPC_REL24 bugs in glibc 2.2.x

[Olaf Hering <olh at suse dot de>]

On Tue, Jun 26, Olaf Hering wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 25, Geoff Keating wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 00:37:06 +0200
> > > From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
> > > Cc: libc-alpha@sources.redhat.com
> > 
> > > I checked the build logs and it seems that every used package has -fPIC
> > > in the compile options and I found no -fpic. libXft.so it self is
> > > compiled with -fPIC. It seems that only kmail has that reloc error (I
> > > didnt check every single kde app yet :)).
> > > Our sources should be clean in that respect, we added -fPIC to all
> > > packages. 
> > > I will recheck the logs again, maybe I missed something.
> > 
> > It'd probably be faster to use 'objdump -R' on the shared object file
> > to see where the R_PPC_REL24 reloc applies to.
> 
> libfreetype.a is the culprit.

Do you know why it can work with a glibc 2.1.3 system? 
Adding a -fPIC to shared objects in XFree86 4.1 isnt that easy, it seems
that the loader needs support for -fPIC compiled objects.
The libfreetype.a is used to link libXft.so.1 and also to load during
the Xsession. 

A lot of apps are linked against libXft.so.1 and I wonder why only kmail
doesnt work.


Gruss Olaf

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