Strange link error on rawhide

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 02-04-15 15:03, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 02:59:01PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> ClanLib currently fails to build properly on rawhide, I've narrowed
>> the problem down to a link error while building a conftest from
>> the configure script:
>>
>> configure:15948: g++ -o conftest  -I/usr/include/freetype2  -Wl,-z,relro -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld conftest.cpp -lfreetype  >&5
>> /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccKrsAte.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against undefined symbol `FT_Init_FreeType' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>>
>> I'm not sure what is happening here, any hints to help address this
>> would be appreciated.
>
> Packaging error.

Actually a bug in the configure script of the package :)

   You are passing down the LDFLAGS (aka %{__global_ldflags})
> from redhat-rpm-config, but not CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS (aka %{optflags} or $RPM_OPT_FLAGS).
> For compilation and linking in the same compiler driver invocation you need to pass
> both.

Thanks that did the trick.

Regards,

Hans