[neon] Bug report: Build error on Linux 2.6.9.34 on x86_64

[Richard Vermillion]

Apologies if this is to the wrong list.  The bug actually appeared  
during a build of subversion 1.4.3 with neon included as part of the  
dependencies.  However the work around was achieved by modifying the  
Neon Makefile, so I'm posting this here.

Here is the error when building Subversion complaining that it can't  
link to Neon because it's not position-independent code:

/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/svn/subversion-1.4.3/neon/src/.libs/libneon.a 
(ne_request.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can  
not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/tmp/svn/subversion-1.4.3/neon/src/.libs/libneon.a: could not read  
symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


The fix was to make the following change in the generated src/Makefile:

28c28
< CFLAGS = -g -O2
---
> CFLAGS = -g -O2 -fPIC

I'm not sure how to modify the configure script to supply this  
automatically for this platform.  However, once this change is made  
and 'make' run on the neon directory, subversion will happily finish  
building.

Let me know if any more information would be helpful.

-rv





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