Re: big number of relocations in gtk2 binding

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Feb 12, 2008, at 11:28 AM, Thierry Vignaud wrote:

> > 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
>
> The actual issue is with visibility. On x86_64, I'd to reverse some
> bits:
> <relocations-fixes.patch>
> $ relinfo.pl blib/arch/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.so
> blib/arch/auto/Gtk2/Gtk2.so: 262 relocations, 228 relative (87%),  
> 3856 PLT entries, 28 for local syms (0%), 0 users


Odd.  Was -fPIC really not included in the build or was the warning  
spurious?   (Setting VERBOSE=1 in the environment will show the full  
link command.)

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