It was reported that libpcap fails to link on freebsd-sparc: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247076
Patch in attachment fixes this issue. Please, apply. -- Peter.
>From 8c8c09edc7f6315a4b2851578c957c616561cfd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Peter Volkov <p...@gentoo.org> Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 13:01:06 +0400 Subject: [PATCH] Fix build failure on freebsd-sparc libpcap fails to link on sparc-fbsd with the following error: sparc64-gentoo-freebsd7.2-ranlib libpcap.a pcap-bpf.o: In function `pcap_cleanup_bpf': pcap-bpf.c:(.text+0x6cc): relocation truncated to fit: R_SPARC_GOT13 against symbol `__stderrp@@FBSD_1.0' defined in .data section in /usr/lib/gcc/sparc64-gentoo-freebsd7.2/4.4.3/../../../libc.so This patch fixes this issue by forcing -fPIC on sparc. Initially this bug was reported: http://bugs.gentoo.org/247076 --- aclocal.m4 | 9 ++++++++- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/aclocal.m4 b/aclocal.m4 index e5841ed..a086fc1 100644 --- a/aclocal.m4 +++ b/aclocal.m4 @@ -245,7 +245,14 @@ AC_DEFUN(AC_LBL_SHLIBS_INIT, # or accepts command-line arguments like # those the GNU linker accepts. # - V_CCOPT="$V_CCOPT -fpic" + case "$host_cpu" in + sparc*) + V_CCOPT="$V_CCOPT -fPIC" + ;; + *) + V_CCOPT="$V_CCOPT -fpic" + ;; + esac V_SONAME_OPT="-Wl,-soname," V_RPATH_OPT="-Wl,-rpath," ;; -- 1.6.4.4
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