Build error kdebase on amd64 platform: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol'

[Christian Esken]

Hello,

I receive the following error message when building trunk:

kde at firefly:/SVN/kdebase/obj> make
Linking CXX shared module ../../../lib/kcm_pci.so
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.2.1/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.2.1/../../../../lib64/libpci.a(access.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.2.1/../../../../lib64/libpci.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [lib/kcm_pci.so] Fehler 1
make[1]: *** [apps/kinfocenter/pci/CMakeFiles/kcm_pci.dir/all] Fehler 2
make: *** [all] Fehler 2

The message suggests to build with -fPIC. OK, as a workaround I changed the CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE from "debugfull" to "Release", and the compiler c++ now uses -fPIC . The build error, though, is the same. Is there a known workaround for this issue?


BTW: The page http://groups.google.com/group/linux.debian.bugs.dist/browse_thread/thread/69efa81af7fc0bf5 reports similar issues with kdepim under amd64, so it seems not to be specific to CPU architecture and not me.

  Christian

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