Use -mxgot to fix relocation errors on mips?

[Mike Furr <mfurr@debian.org>]

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Hello all,

One of my packages failed to build[0] on mips due to a bunch of linking
errors like:
~  relocation truncated to fit: R_MIPS_GOT16 <symbol>

Reading through -mips and -gcc archives I see this problem has surfaced
for packages like mozilla and gcj.  The general fix seems to be adding
- -mxgot to the build flags, but some of the posts suggested that this is
not always a good idea.  The package is a game and doesn't produce any
shared libraries, so I don't think breaking binary compatibility would
be a problem(as I understand -mxgot may do).

Is -mxgot the appropriate fix here?

thanks,
- -Mike

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http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.php?&pkg=vegastrike&ver=0.4.2-1&arch=mips&stamp=1103203330&file=log&as=raw
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