Ubuntu
glew package

glew compiled without -fPIC flag

Bug #811789 reported by Miłosz Kosobucki
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Bug Description

I'm developing a shared library that uses GLEW. When I'm trying to link it I get the following error:

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libGLEW.a(glew.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib64/libGLEW.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

It seems that GLEW in ubuntu is compiled without -fPIC flag.
When I compile my library as static I get no errors.

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Miłosz Kosobucki (mikom) wrote :

Adding simple testcase.

This wiki page has valid points about why static libraries should be compiled with PIC
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Tibbs/Text_Relocation_Guidelines

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Nigel Stewart (nigels) wrote :

I've put a fix into GLEW which will appear in the release after 1.9.0.

- Nigel

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Matthias Klose (doko) wrote :

according to the build logs this is at least fixed in 14.04 LTS

Changed in glew (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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