As part of updating to the latest stable Xscreensaver,
I tried to emerge its requirement Motif, which failed with this message :
>>> Compiling source in
>>> /var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8 ...
* abi_x86_64.amd64: running multilib-minimal_abi_src_compile
make -j9 -C tools/wml CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc LIBS=-lfl wmluiltok
make: Entering directory
'/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8-abi_x86_64.amd64/tools/wml'
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
-I/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8/tools/wml
-I../../include -I../../lib/Xm -I../../lib
-I/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8/tools/wml/../../lib
-I/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8/tools/wml/../../include
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/uuid -march=native -O2 -pipe
-fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unused -Wno-comment
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/uuid -c -o wmluiltok.o
/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8/tools/wml/wmluiltok.c
/bin/sh ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
-march=native -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing
-Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz
-I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/uuid
-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--as-needed -o wmluiltok wmluiltok.o -lfl -lfl
libtool: link: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=native -O2 -pipe
-fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unused -Wno-comment
-I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/uuid -Wl,-O1 -o wmluiltok
wmluiltok.o -Wl,--as-needed -lfl
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../lib64/libfl.a(libmain.o):
warning: relocation against `exit@@GLIBC_2.2.5' in read-only section
`.text.startup'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../lib64/libfl.a(libmain.o):
relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `exit@@GLIBC_2.2.5' can not be used
when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIE
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
final link failed: bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:502: wmluiltok] Error 1
make: Leaving directory
'/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8-abi_x86_64.amd64/tools/wml'
* ERROR: x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2::gentoo failed (compile phase):
* emake failed
-- end of Portage output --
This looks as if the problem is with Gcc flags, which is rather technical.
Has anyone else run into this ? Does anyone have suggestions ?
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