[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#658273: volview: relocation R_MIPS_HI16 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

[Mathieu Malaterre]

Package: volview
Severity: serious
Justification: FTBFS


volview currently does not build on mipsel. It fails with:

cd /build/buildd-volview_3.4-1-mipsel-QA92w9/volview-3.4/obj-mipsel-linux-gnu/VolViewLibraries/KWCommonPro
&& /usr/bin/cmake -E cmake_link_script
CMakeFiles/KWCommonPro.dir/link.txt --verbose=1
/usr/bin/c++  -fPIC   -Wno-deprecated   -ftemplate-depth-50 -Wall
-Wno-deprecated -O2 -g      -shared -Wl,-soname,libKWCommonPro.so -o
.../../bin/libKWCommonPro.so
CMakeFiles/KWCommonPro.dir/vtkAnalyzeReader.o
<...>
/usr/lib/libvtkHybrid.so.5.8.0 ../../bin/libKWCommon.so
/usr/lib/libvtkWidgets.so.5.8.0 ../../bin/libctnlib.a
/usr/lib/libvtkHybrid.so.5.8.0 /usr/lib/libvtkParallel.so.5.8.0
/usr/lib/libvtkVolumeRendering.so.5.8.0
/usr/lib/libvtkRendering.so.5.8.0 /usr/lib/libvtkGraphics.so.5.8.0
/usr/lib/libvtkImaging.so.5.8.0 /usr/lib/libvtkIO.so.5.8.0
/usr/lib/libvtkFiltering.so.5.8.0 /usr/lib/libvtkCommon.so.5.8.0
/usr/lib/libvtksys.so.5.8.0 -ldl -lm
/usr/bin/ld: ../../bin/libctnlib.a(condition.o): relocation
R_MIPS_HI16 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a
shared object; recompile with -fPIC
.../../bin/libctnlib.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.4
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (200, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash