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 1L9wSa-0005s1-46 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2008 06:52:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8ECDE0601; Tue, 9 Dec 2008 06:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vergina.dyndns.org (adsl77-37.ath.forthnet.gr [77.49.40.37]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86E1EE0601 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2008 06:52:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vergina.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by laptop.vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC8284B4163 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2008 08:52:41 +0200 (EET) Received: from [192.168.0.13] (dwarfy.vergina.dyndns.org [192.168.0.13]) by laptop.vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 139308519F2C for ; Tue, 9 Dec 2008 08:52:41 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <493E15B8.1000809@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:52:40 +0200 From: Thanasis User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081207) 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: dev-util/devhelp-0.21 emerge fails References: <49368849.4050803@asyr.hopto.org> <4936D6A1.9030002@asyr.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-7; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Archives-Salt: 54c61601-f677-4ed3-82b0-c793f3ae6dd9 X-Archives-Hash: dab602832295520844f23c0bbdca1976 on 12/04/2008 02:02 AM Duncan wrote the following: > 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 did an switched to sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2 and recompiled all (system and then world) and this time devhelp emerged fine. :-)