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From: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
To: buildroot@busybox.net
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] libcap: fix static linking issue
Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2013 23:29:54 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131006232954.71da4d75@skate> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5251C3B0.7090105@openwide.fr>

Dear Romain Naour,

On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:10:24 +0200, Romain Naour wrote:
> Add -fPIC flag
> 
> Fixes:
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/619bceb3491ecd2ed4e1ae552fdb237a0ed2fa47/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour@openwide.fr>
> ---
>  package/libcap/libcap.mk | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/libcap/libcap.mk b/package/libcap/libcap.mk
> index 16afaef..6248fed 100644
> --- a/package/libcap/libcap.mk
> +++ b/package/libcap/libcap.mk
> @@ -25,10 +25,15 @@ endif
>  # we don't have host-attr
>  HOST_LIBCAP_DEPENDENCIES =
> 
> +ifeq ($(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB),y)
> +LIBCAP_LDFLAGS=-fPIC
> +endif

This seems really weird, because normally, we would expect exactly the
opposite: position independent code is needed for shared libraries, not
for static libraries.

Thomas
-- 
Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-06 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-06 20:10 [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] libcap: fix static linking issue Romain Naour
2013-10-06 21:29 ` Thomas Petazzoni [this message]
2013-10-08  8:11   ` Romain Naour
2013-10-08  8:13     ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-10-13 19:44       ` Romain Naour
2013-10-16 16:09         ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-11-01 17:48 ` Thomas Petazzoni
2013-11-02 15:52   ` Romain Naour

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