[gentoo-amd64] emerge zlib doesn't make zlib.so

[gentoo-amd64] emerge zlib doesn't make zlib.so

[Kyle Liddell]

Greetings.

I tried doing an emerge -e world because some apps are having trouble 
with finding libraries (revdep-rebuild didn't help), and when it came 
time to emerge zlib, the shared library wouldn't build (although the 
actual package would build and install), so now I've got a close to 
useless system because nothing can find libz.so*.

I really have no clue what's going on with this.  Anybody have any 
suggestions?  Or should I file a bug?  (Seems like I must have something 
dumb though.)

Some useful things:
emerge --info = http://fishbucket.homelinux.net/~kyle/gentoo/emerge-info
emerge zlib log = http://fishbucket.homelinux.net/~kyle/gentoo/zliblog

Thanks,
Kyle Liddell

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge zlib doesn't make zlib.so

[Simon Stelling]

 >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/zlib-1.2.3/work/zlib-1.2.3 ...
./configure: line 80: -fPIC: command not found

looks very odd. having a look at the changelog...

   06 Mar 2006; Diego Petten\uffff <flameeyes@gentoo.org>
   files/zlib-1.2.1-fPIC.patch:
   Don't try to execute -fPIC, append that afterward to make NetBSD work 
_and_
   PIC being used, or it will build only static libraries on PIC arches.

it seems like this bug is already fixed in CVS, at least i can't 
reproduce it here.

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Simon Stelling
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] emerge zlib doesn't make zlib.so

[Kyle Liddell]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 08:47:27PM +0100, Simon Stelling wrote:
>   files/zlib-1.2.1-fPIC.patch:
>   Don't try to execute -fPIC, append that afterward to make NetBSD work 
> _and_
>   PIC being used, or it will build only static libraries on PIC arches.
> 
> it seems like this bug is already fixed in CVS, at least i can't 
> reproduce it here.
> 

Yeah, that was very weird.  zlib builds fine now, and it does seem that the fPIC patch did get modified sometime over the past few days.  (I compiled zlib maybe 3-4 days ago.)

Thanks for taking a look.

Kyle Liddell
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