Re: shlib-with-non-pic-code

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 07:57:27PM +0200, Michael Biebl <biebl@teco.edu> wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> I got a strange problem with my kdesvn package and hope someone can help
> me. Upstream switched the build system from autotools to CMake.
> Now lintian complains about the files in /usr/lib/kde3:
> 
> E: kdesvn-kio-plugins: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/kded_kdesvnd.so
> E: kdesvn-kio-plugins: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/kio_ksvn.so
> E: kdesvn: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/kde3/libkdesvnpart.so
> 
> Looking at the corresponding check, lintian greps for TEXTREL in objdump
> -x and indead, this section is there. Can someone explain what this
> section is for, google was not very helpful there.
> 
> The command line when linking the modules is
> /usr/bin/c++  -fPIC -g -Wall -O2 -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -ansi
> -Wundef -Wcast-align -Wconversion -Wchar-subscripts -Wall -W
> -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -O2 -Wformat-security -fno-exceptions
> -fno-check-new -fno-common -fexceptions -fstack-protector  -shared
> -Wl,-soname,kded_kdesvnd.so -o ../../lib/kded_kdesvnd.so

Does the code contain any __attribute__((visibility("hidden"))) kinda stuff ?

Mike