print/fontforge: link failure on amd64

[Andriy Gapon]

on 29/10/2007 22:06 Naram Qashat said the following:
> I'm using FreeBSD 6.2 on i386 and it links Python just fine with 
> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a, so I suspect it has something to 
> do with how Python gets built on an amd64.  I don't have one to test it on, but 
> have you tried rebuilding Python and then Fontforge?  I just want to see if it's 
> Python's fault, Fontforge's fault, or something weird with the way Fontforge's 
> libtool is handling Python.  I'm not even sure if Python is actually used by 
> Fontforge either.  I haven't looked into that.

Yes, I did rebuild python before fontforge.
I think that this indeed has something to do with amd64.

> Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> on 29/10/2007 15:08 Naram Qashat said the following:
>>> 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.
>> Just in case: there is already
>> /usr/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.so installed, I hacked
>> Makefile to link against it and everything seems to be OK.
>>
>>> 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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Andriy Gapon