Hi Ted,
Thanks for this. I actually found a PKGBUILD for version 0.38 on my
computer dating from last June which obviously I had forgotten to upload
to AUR :( Although the C*FLAGS with -fPIC are set globally in there, it
builds and works just fine on my x86_64 system. I have updated it on AUR
yesterday. Can you test it please? If your problem persists I will try
to follow your suggestion.
I am actually very interested in having this in AUR, since it is a
dependency of Biber (http://biblatex-biber.sf.net), of which I am a
developer. It will be officially released next week-end, but someone
else put in in AUR already long ago
(http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27998) ;)
Best,
F
On 08/02/2010 20:41, Ted Pavlic wrote:
AUR --
I've sent a message to the package maintainer about this, but it
has been a while since there has been an update, and so I wanted to
send something here too for comment and archival purposes. At the
moment, the perl-text-bibtex package fails on x86_64 systems because
it tries to link libraries built without -fPIC to object files built
with -fPIC.
On x86_64 machines, when building the perl-text-bibtex package, it
is necessary to add:
-fPIC
to the btparse compiler flags before running "make". That is, the
PKGBUILD should...
(1) Download Text::BibTeX from CPAN
(2) Run "perl Makefile.PL", which will fetch a btparse distribution
and untar it into a directory that it symlinks to "btparse"
(3) Change to "btparse" and add "-fPIC" to CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, and
CXXFLAGS in the Makefile and src/Makefile files
(4) Change back to the Text::BibTeX root and run "make"
Otherwise, the linker will complain because the Perl libraries will be
built with -fPIC and the btparse libraries will not be... so they'll
be incompatible for linking.
ALTERNATIVELY, the PKGBUILD could...
(1) Download a btparse distribution and untar it into directory "A"
(creating "A/btparse-0.35/")
(2) Modify A/btparse-0.35/Makefile and A/btparse-0.35/src/Makefile as
described above
(3) Download the Text::BibTeX distribution from CPAN and also untar it
into directory "A" (creating A/Text-BibTeX-0.38/")
(4) complete the Text::BibTeX installation as usual (it will find the
btparse distribution that shares a parent directory with it)
Otherwise, perl-text-bibtex fails to build on x86_64 systems.
--Ted
