On Tue, May 22, 2001 at 12:41:18PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:29:11PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > >perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts currently gives me this: > > > >-rdynamic -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a > >\ > > -L/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt > > > >For one thing, I don't really know why it wants to give us -L/usr/local/lib, > >but that's ok. I can live with that. [...] > > The upstream Configure adds -L/usr/local/lib to ldflags which I've > retained, as users may wish to build local modules/embedded programs in > against libs in /usr/local/lib. > > >[...] DynaLoader, however, is a problem - > >it's not PIC, but libperl is. I'd much rather keep modperl entirely PIC, > >and this is what seems to be stopping me at present. Any ideas? > > DynaLoader.a contains a single file, DynaLoader.o which is used to > provide a portable interface to dynamic loading (uses dlopen() here) and > is compiled with -fPIC.
How sure are you of that? [ 2] .rel.text REL 00000000 0016ac 000628 08 9 1 4 That's not PIC. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
