Bug 150085
| Summary: | tetex shared libraries missing | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Norman Gray <gray> |
| Component: | tetex | Assignee: | Jindrich Novy <jnovy> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | mpeters, pknirsch |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2006-12-16 22:20:39 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 190665 | ||
I didn't realize that someone wants to use kpathsea libraries from the teTeX distribution in own programs. Adding of -fPIC doesn't look too hard to add to have position independent code. I'll consider it and add it if there are no further problems occurs. Jindrich It seems this issue blocks PyX builds in x86_64 on in at least FC5 and rawhide. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190247 If this issue is addressed, building libkpathsea as a shared library instead of static would mean that PyX in extras would not have to be rebuilt if an update to tetex-fonts includes a patch to the kpathsea library. Product Management has reviewed and declined this request. You may appeal this decision by reopening this request. |
Description of problem: tetex 1.0.7 includes the (static) library libkpathsea.a. This is built without PIC, and causes an error when one attempts to create a sharable library which refers to it. This works on other platforms, but not on x86_64. Possible actions: either compile tetex with --enable-shared, which was not the default for early tetex releases, or adjust the CFLAGS when building it to add -fPIC (I haven't verified this last route, but it should be sufficient). tetex 1.* is rather old; tetex 3 is available -- perhaps there's an enhancement request here. --enable-shared is set by default on recent tetex releases. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: % cat /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 3 (Taroon Update 4) % rpm -q tetex tetex-1.0.7-66 % cat tetex-bug.c call_kpse () { kpse_find_file(); /* routine present in libkpathsea */ } % gcc -c tetex-bug.c % ld -shared -o libtetex-bug.so tetex-bug.o -L. -lkpathsea ld: ./libkpathsea.a(tex-file.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC ./libkpathsea.a: could not read symbols: Bad value % (the above is the command-line I used on my system. This system has been fixed by adding the libkpathsea.so; I don't have access to a stock RHEL system, so in order to demonstrate the problem here I have to copy the libkpathsea.a. The -L. obviously won't be necessary on a stock system. At any rate, this is the error that appears on the stock system) Actual results: as above Expected results: not to fail Additional info: