>Number:         25834
>Category:       pkg
>Synopsis:       libtool with -prefer-non-pic tries to create shared objects from non-PIC code on Solaris
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    pkg-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jun 06 03:11:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     grant beattie
>Release:        SunOS 5.9
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: SunOS u10 5.9 Generic_117171-02 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
Architecture: sparc
Machine: sun4u
>Description:
audio/liba52 passes -prefer-non-pic to libtool, presumably to get a
bit of a speed increase from linking non-PIC code into a shared
library on platforms where this is OK.

this is not OK on Solaris, and shared objects must be linked from PIC
code.
>How-To-Repeat:
build audio/liba52 on Solaris and observe the linker relocation
errors.
>Fix:
on Solaris, even when -prefer-non-pic is passed, libtool should always
pass the right flag to the compiler to generate PIC code when a shared
object is to be built.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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