Re: Amarok 1.92 crashes on powerpc.
On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 17:57 +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
>
> ----------------
> Klib could not load module: libamarok_collection-sqlcollection
>
> Error message:
> QLibrary::loadsys: impossible to load
> /usr/lib/kde4/libamarok_collection-sqlcollection
> (/usr/lib/kde4/libamarok_collection-sqlcollection: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at
> 0x09d0c450 for symbol 'strcopy' out of range.
> -----------------
> As indicated in the message, the error seems powerpc specific...
>
> I submitted a bug to the KDE bug tracking system:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171922
> but I am not sure anymore, after further digging on the web that the culprit
> is amarok (could be mysql ?). I read something about adding a flag -fPIC, but
> it was from a very old post, and I do not know if it still makes sense.
>
> Does anybody have an idea about the culprit of this error, and how it could be
> fixed ?
All objects linked
into /usr/lib/kde4/libamarok_collection-sqlcollection.so (which is in
amarok according to dlocate) need to be compiled with -fPIC.
(Failure to do so is a violation of Debian policy 10.2, so technically
this is a bug of severity serious)
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