Trouble with building Cyrus on amd64

[Patrick Boutilier]

On 09/26/2009 09:21 AM, mozafar roshany wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I want to apply this patch:
> http://www.pramberger.at/peter/software/patches/#cyrus
> (cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-md5hash.patch
> <ftp://ftp.pramberger.at/software/patches/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12-md5hash.patch>)
> to increase the directory levels of mailboxes. But I've had many
> problems with compiling Cyrus. My system is: Debian Lenny,
> 2.6.26-2-amd64 x86_64. The last one I can't resolve. The following is
> the end of make:
>
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> ...
> ### Making all in /root/src/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12/perl
> make[1]: Entering directory `/root/src/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12/perl'
> ### Making all in /root/src/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12/perl/imap
> Writing Makefile for Cyrus::IMAP
> make[2]: Entering directory `/root/src/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12/perl/imap'
> cc -c  -I../../lib   -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN
> -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
> -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g   -DVERSION=\"1.00\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.00\"
> -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE"  -DPERL_POLLUTE IMAP.c
> Running Mkbootstrap for Cyrus::IMAP ()
> chmod 644 IMAP.bs
> rm -f blib/arch/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.so
> cc  -shared -O2 -g -L/usr/local/lib IMAP.o  -o
> blib/arch/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.so ../../lib/libcyrus.a
> ../../lib/libcyrus_min.a    \
>         -ldb-4 -lsasl2 -lssl -lcrypto      \
>
> /usr/bin/ld: ../../lib/libcyrus.a(imclient.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S
> against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> ../../lib/libcyrus.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[2]: *** [blib/arch/auto/Cyrus/IMAP/IMAP.so] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/src/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12/perl/imap'
> make[1]: *** [all] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/src/cyrus/cyrus-imapd-2.2.12/perl'
> make: *** [all] Error 1
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> It tells about adding -fPIC flag, but I've had no success with adding it
> to Makefiles.

make all CFLAGS=-fPIC

>
> I should mention the number of my test users are more than that be
> handled by fulldirhash parameter. With this I will have several
> thousands of mailboxes at one [A-Z] directory.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>
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