Re: big number of relocations in gtk2 binding

[Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud mandriva com>]

muppet <scott asofyet org> writes:

> I put a new version of the patch at
> http://asofyet.org/muppet/software/gtk2-perl/relocations-2.patch .
>
> Diffstat says:
> 
>     213 files changed, 328 insertions(+), 226 deletions(-)
> 
> and relinfo.pl says:
> 
>     267 relocations, 228 relative (85%), 3845 PLT entries, 26 for  
> local syms (0%), 0 users
> 
> That's 85% versus 76% with the previous patch, and a drop of 3 PLTs.   
> Nearly all of the PLTs are for things from dependent libraries, so  
> there's not much we can do about that.

note that with that release, -fPIC became mandatory on x86_64:

[ LD blib/arch/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.so ]
/usr/bin/ld: xs/GtkStock.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `gtk2perl_translate_func_create' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status