From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?UTF-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: bug#18521: AbiWord fails to build on x86_64-linux and mips64el-linux Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:37:33 +0200 Message-ID: <87sijiuo02.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87mw9st7yc.fsf@gnu.org> <1411493609.18356.5.camel@p3-gnu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40500) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWVuj-0003CH-3b for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:38:24 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWVua-0007Iq-Kw for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:38:17 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:58706) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XWVua-0007IE-I4 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:38:08 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XWVuV-0007DN-7g for bug-guix@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Sep 2014 15:38:03 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1411493609.18356.5.camel@p3-gnu> (Marek Benc's message of "Tue, 23 Sep 2014 19:33:29 +0200") List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Marek Benc Cc: 18521@debbugs.gnu.org (Keeping the bug email address Cc=E2=80=99d.) Marek Benc skribis: > Seems like ots and fribidi need to be compiled as position independent > code. That=E2=80=99s not the problem: both libots-1.{a,so} are available, for instance, but AbiWord ends up liking its plug-in (a shared library) against libots-1.a, which is naturally not PIC, hence the problem. I investigated a bit but couldn=E2=80=99t find any obvious clue. Ludo=E2=80=99.