print/fontforge: link failure on amd64

Naram Qashat cyberbotx at cyberbotx.com
Mon Oct 29 09:59:57 PDT 2007


I'm really not sure about it, but maybe Python needs rebuilding for that? 
Either that or I could look into seeing if there's an option to enable/disable 
Python support.  I think by default it just auto-detects if Python is there and 
tries to use it if it is.

Naram Qashat

Andriy Gapon wrote:
> I have the following problem while building print/fontforge version
> 20071002 on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p6 amd64:
> *** Warning: Linking the shared library ../libfontforge.la against the
> *** static library /usr/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a is not
> portable!
> cc -shared  .libs/autohint.o .libs/autosave.o ...
> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a -lutil -lpthread -lm
> /usr/local/lib/libintl.so  -march=athlon64 -Wl,-soname
> -Wl,libfontforge.so.1 -o ../.libs/libfontforge.so.1
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a(abstract.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a: could not read symbols:
> Bad value
> gmake[1]: *** [../libfontforge.la] Error 1
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory
> `/usr/ports/print/fontforge/work/fontforge-20071002/fontforge'
> gmake: *** [fontforge] Error 2
> *** Error code 2
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/print/fontforge.
> 
> I think that there either should be a "PIC" version of libpython2.5.a
> and that's what fontforge should link to or it should link to .so
> version of the library.
> 


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