On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:11:55 +1100
Wayne Blaszczyk <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> Has anyone successfully built Cairo with GDB (GNU Debugger)?
> I've have gdb 7.3.1 installed which is the latest and I get the
> following error when building Cairo:
> 
> 
>   CC     libcairo_trace_la-lookup-symbol.lo
>   CCLD   libcairo-trace.la
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libbfd.a(format.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S
> against `binary_vec' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/lib/libbfd.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[4]: *** [libcairo-trace.la] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory `/sources/cairo-1.10.0/util/cairo-trace'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/sources/cairo-1.10.0/util'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/cairo-1.10.0/util'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/cairo-1.10.0'
> make: *** [all] Error 2
> 
> I've tried versions 1.10.0 and 1.10.2 with the same result.
> Any ideas on a fix?

Hi Wayne,
I'm sorry it's taken me so long to get around to answering your
mmessage, I've had a busy day.
Does it work if you configure gdb with CFLAGS-fPIC?
eg:

CFLAGS=-fPIC ./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install

Andy
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