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To: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
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Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:

>>         cc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib Git.o  -o blib/arch/auto/Git/Git.so ../libgit.a	\
>>                    -lz -lcrypto  	\
>> 
>>         /usr/bin/ld: ../libgit.a(exec_cmd.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>>         ../libgit.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
>>         collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>         make[1]: *** [blib/arch/auto/Git/Git.so] Error 1
>> 
>> This is a real killer.  If we compile everything with -fPIC,
>> this goes away, but I do not think we want -fPIC for the core
>> level tools.  At least not until we are ready to do libgit.so.
>
> Hmm, I didn't get that; I guess that's x86-64 specific. :/

So it seems.  Both RH machines I have access at kernel.org and
Debian machines I have locally exhibit that x86-32 is OK and
x86-64 is bad.  They all run libc-2.3.6 except RH x86-32 is at
libc-2.3.4.