Libtool and Support for Shared Libraries (3)

[Greg Banks]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012, at 12:27 AM, Bron Gondwana wrote:
> 
> 
> /usr/bin/ld.bfd.real: /usr/lib/libcom_err.a(error_message.o): relocation
> R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared
> object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/lib/libcom_err.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
>
> 
> So what am I doing wrong,

Nothing.

> or in the alternative what is the build system
> doing wrong?

There is a path through configure.ac which sets

     COM_ERR_LIBS="${with_com_err}/lib/libcom_err.a"

and COM_ERR_LIBS gets used to link against shared libraries in
Makefile.am

imap_libcyrus_imap_la_LIBADD = $(COM_ERR_LIBS) $(LIB_UUID)
...
sieve_libcyrus_sieve_la_LIBADD = $(COM_ERR_LIBS)
...

I would guess you did something like

./configure --with-com_err=/usr

but you should be able to get a better result by just dropping the
option entirely.

-- 
Greg.