Crash on Ubuntu 16.10 with libunittest++

[Jonathan Thomas]

When linking against unittest++ on Ubuntu 16.10 (64-bit), I get a ton of errors similar to this one:

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/6/../../../../lib/libunittest++.a(Test.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against symbol `_ZTVN8UnitTest4TestE' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

Here is a build log from my recipe on Launchpad (the errors are at the very bottom of the this log): https://launchpadlibrarian.net/285452385/buildlog_ubuntu-yakkety-amd64.libopenshot_0.1.2+0+561+103+201609200333+daily~ubuntu16.10.1_BUILDING.txt.gz

On all other versions of Ubuntu, my recipe on Launchpad works fine. But on 64-bit Ubuntu 16.10, it fails with these errors. Just curious if something has changed in this source package, that would only affect this architecture/platform.

Please let me know if you would like additional info.

Thanks!
-Jonathan

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mark Thornton (mthornton-2)]

Happens to me with an auto generated project under CodeLite that contains only a trivial test.

[Mark Thornton (mthornton-2)]

I notice that the packaged version is 1.4.0-3, unchanged since 2011. The current latest release from the project source https://github.com/unittest-cpp/unittest-cpp is 2.0.0. Removing the package and building 2.0.0 from source solved my problem. At least it would build and run. The CodeLite plugin for UnitTest++ unfortunately doesn't work.

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

I did package 2.0.0 in Debian a few minutes ago, will sync for AA (next Ubuntu stable)