libiconv.a(iconv.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object

[Jeremie Le Hen]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2013 at 12:52:03PM +0200, Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (Please Cc: me when replying, I'm not subscribed.)
> 
> I created a fresh FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE amd64 jail.  No installed ports.
> 
> I cannot build devel/gettext.  Does anyone experience the same problem?
> I invariably run into the following problem:
> 
> libtool: link: cc -shared  -fPIC -DPIC  .libs/bindtextdom.o .libs/dcgettext.o .libs/dgettext.o .libs/gettext.o .libs/finddomain.o .libs/hash-string.o .libs/loadmsgcat.o .libs/localealias.o .libs/textdomain.o .libs/l10nflist.o .libs/explodename.o .libs/dcigettext.o .libs/dcngettext.o .libs/dngettext.o .libs/ngettext.o .libs/plural.o .libs/plural-exp.o .libs/localcharset.o .libs/threadlib.o .libs/lock.o .libs/relocatable.o .libs/langprefs.o .libs/localename.o .libs/log.o .libs/printf.o .libs/setlocale.o .libs/version.o .libs/xsize.o .libs/osdep.o .libs/intl-compat.o   -L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libiconv.a  -O2   -Wl,-soname -Wl,libintl.so.9 -o .libs/libintl.so.9
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libiconv.a(iconv.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/local/lib/libiconv.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> 
> Full typescript here:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~jlh/typescript.gettext.txt

For the record, Gabor Pali pointed that inside the jail, uname(1) still
returned the version from my host (10-CURRENT), so the port makes wrong
assumptions.  This is solved using environement variables as described
in the uname(1) manpage.
 

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Jeremie Le Hen

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