Install PIC version of libbfd.a

[Ryo Onodera]

Like Bug #50512, there should be the PIC version of libbfd.a.

The reason is as follows:

1. As required, we need to link statically to libbfd (see linux-tools: perf should link statically to libbfd Bug #783660)

2. we need to build libopagent correctly, which uses libbfd with static link (see oprofile: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libopagent.so: undefined symbol: bfd_init Bug #1148682)

3. But currently, libopagent aren't built correctly causing the symbol lookup error. That's because OProfile's patches/static-libbfd-libopagnet-makefile.patch disables static linking to libbfd (possibly, as a quick work around):

--- a/libopagent/Makefile.am
+++ b/libopagent/Makefile.am
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ libopagent_la_CPPFLAGS = -I ${top_srcdir
  -I ${top_srcdir}/libutil \
  @OP_CPPFLAGS@

-libopagent_la_LIBADD = $(BFD_LIBS)
+libopagent_la_LIBADD =

 # Do not increment the major version for this library except to
 # intentionally break backward ABI compatability. Use the

When I build OProfile with the preceeding work-around patch removed, I get following error. I want to fix this error.

/bin/bash ../libtool --tag=CC --mode=link x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -fPIC -g -O2 -version-info 1:0:0 -Wl,--version-script=../libopagent/opagent_symbols.ver -o libopagent.la -rpath /usr/lib/oprofile libopagent_la-opagent.lo /usr/lib/libbfd.a -lz -liberty -ldl -liberty -lpopt -ldl -lz

*** Warning: Linking the shared library libopagent.la against the
*** static library /usr/lib/libbfd.a is not portable!
libtool: link: x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -shared -fPIC -DPIC .libs/libopagent_la-opagent.o /usr/lib/libbfd.a -liberty /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpopt.so -ldl -lz -O2 -Wl,--version-script=../libopagent/opagent_symbols.ver -Wl,-soname -Wl,libopagent.so.1 -o .libs/libopagent.so.1.0.0
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libbfd.a(archures.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `_sch_istable' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib/libbfd.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [libopagent.la] Error 1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Riku Voipio (riku-voipio)]

It seems oprofile was "fixed" - this by dynamically linking against libbfd, which explicitly isn't allowed.

libbfd_pic.a is needed for mutrace as well.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

> which explicitly isn't allowed.

why?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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