From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L9k4f-0003nc-Mj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2008 17:39:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8AF9E05FB; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ece06.nas.nasa.gov (ece06.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.105.32]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C3EDE05FB for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 17:39:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ece06 (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ece06.nas.nasa.gov (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04B97239260 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 2008 09:39:11 -0800 (PST) To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: dev-util/devhelp-0.21 emerge fails In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:02:27 GMT." X-url: http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~bgreen/ Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2008 09:39:10 -0800 From: Bryan Green Message-Id: <20081208173911.04B97239260@ece06.nas.nasa.gov> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: ebdf31fe-63b4-4d61-938d-5c975ae833b0 X-Archives-Hash: d3b461cd534e7ab207ef2f099fd3da84 Duncan writes: > Thanasis posted 4936D6A1.9030002@asyr.hopto.org, > excerpted below, on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:57:37 +0200: > > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ > bin/ld: > > .libs/libdevhelp_1_la-Yelper.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol > > `gtk_moz_embed_get_nsIWebBrowser' can not be used when making a shared > > object; recompile with -fPIC > > /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/ > bin/ld: > > final link failed: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > Well, that seems to have gotten you further, and the error is clearer now. > > > relocation R_X86_64_PC32 > > An error of that nature shows it's trying to link 32-bit code into a 64- > bit binary. That's not going to work. Somehow, you need to get it to > see the 64-bit version and use it instead of the 32-bit version, but > that's beyond my ability to solve. > > It won't help you if you need 32-bit, but it's worth noting that such > errors don't happen if you're running a no-multilib profile. I haven't > seen that problem in awhile, since there's no 32-bit library on my system > for it to get mixed up with and try to link to. But if you play 32-bit > games or something, you'll want to keep multilib, and removing it isn't > fixing the bug, just working around it, anyway. > > I'd say file a bug and let the devs help on this one, at least if you > don't wish to switch to no-multilib. I am experiencing the same problem. I've submitted a bug report: Bug 250306 -bryan