Re: tool-chain bug, fc4

[Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com>]

Your toolchain is broken/sucks.  :-)

See http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20297

That needs to get fixed.  I build packages with a patch on non-x86 
platforms (I haven't tried to figure out which platforms are fine and 
which aren't).  See the spec at 
http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/thunderbird/thunderbird.spec?rev=1.47&view=auto 
for what I'm doing to get around this.


On 09/29/2005 06:15 PM, anpa wrote:
> Hello.
> I have found a very annoying bug in FC4 for Amd64 regarding gcc, ld 
> and friends, and I don't know how to work around it.
> I thought I was going to help out a little on the Mozilla project, but 
> when trying to build from source I got kicked in the balls by the 
> message;
>
> "/usr/bin/ld: deflate.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against 
> `memcpy@@GLIBC_2.2.5' can not be used when making a shared object; 
> recompile with -fPIC"
>
> I have tried tweaking the build in several ways to go around it but 
> without success, and when I talk about this problem I usually get 
> "your tool-chain is broken/sucks" as a response.
> The only workaround I've found so far is to install the normal x86 
> fc4, but since I got an Amd64 it would feel a little like a waste.. :/
>
> Is there another way? Other Gcc-packages? Ld?
>
> Thanks.
> // ap