On 4/8/25 11:41 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 11:34:40AM -0400, Cole Robinson wrote: >> Hi Rich, I've consistently been hitting issues with guestfs-tools >> builds. I have workarounds but they are annoying. >> >> >> 1) With a fresh checkout I run: >> >> $ git submodule init >> $ git submodule update >> $ autoreconf -if >> $ ./configure >> $ make -j8 >> >> I will get these errors: >> >> make[3]: Entering directory '/home/crobinso/src/guestfs-tools/builder' >> GEN virt-builder >> GEN virt-builder-repository >> /usr/bin/ld: virt_builder_repository-index-scan.o: relocation >> R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; >> recompile with -fPIE > > This happens because we compile the Fedora OCaml compiler with either > -fPIE or -fPIC (I forget exactly which, maybe both). This is a > slightly non-standard configuration so it breaks things. It doesn't > happen on Debian. > > Anyway the fix is very trivial, just configure guestfs-tools and > virt-v2v like this: > > ./configure CFLAGS="-O2 -g -fPIC" > > Actually I have a ./localconfigure script which wraps my very long and > complex ./configure line (note that .gitignore ignores any file > matching local* for exactly this reason). >
OK noted, thanks. Note I've never needed this for virt-v2v. But I do see some fPIC references in virt-v2v makefiles, so maybe it has a workaround already - Cole _______________________________________________ Libguestfs mailing list -- guestfs@lists.libguestfs.org To unsubscribe send an email to guestfs-le...@lists.libguestfs.org
