On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:16:40AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:57:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > >> Now lintian complains about the files in /usr/lib/kde3: > >> > >> E: kdesvn-kio-plugins: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/kded_kdesvnd.so > >> E: kdesvn-kio-plugins: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/kio_ksvn.so > >> E: kdesvn: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/libkdesvnpart.so > >> > >> Looking at the corresponding check, lintian greps for TEXTREL in objdump > >> -x and indead, this section is there. Can someone explain what this > >> section is for, google was not very helpful there. > >> > >> The command line when linking the modules is > >> /usr/bin/c++ -fPIC -g -Wall -O2 -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -ansi > >> -Wundef -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W > >> -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -O2 -Wformat-security -fno-exceptions > >> -fno-check-new -fno-common -fexceptions -fstack-protector -shared > >> -Wl,-soname,kded_kdesvnd.so -o ../../lib/kded_kdesvnd.so > > > > More important than the linker command line is the compilation command > > line. > > You need to make sure that all of the source files that make up those .so > > files were built with -fPIC in their command lines. > > Hi Matt, > thanks for your advice but it seems that they all are built with -fPIC. > The command line for a source file looks like this: > > /usr/bin/c++ -Dkded_kdesvnd_EXPORTS -g -Wall -O2 -Wnon-virtual-dtor > -Wno-long-long -ansi -Wundef -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts > -Wall -W -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -O2 -Wformat-security > -fno-exceptions -fno-check-new -fno-common -fexceptions > -fstack-protector -fPIC -I/usr/include/kde -I/usr/share/qt3/include
Bugger. That's the only thing that I've ever had to check. Mike Hommey appears to have deeper knowledge of why things can end up being non-position-independent than me, so I'll leave the tricky debugging work to him. - Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

