[Pkg-kannel-devel] Bug#837663: kannel-dev: Please build libgwlib.a with -fPIC

[Adrian Bunk]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 01:45:21PM +0200, Balint Reczey wrote:
> Source: kannel-dev
> Version: 1.4.4-3
> Severity: important
> User: balint at balintreczey.hu
> Usertags: pie-bindnow-20160906
> Justification: makes kannel-sqlbox FTBFS with extra hardening
> Affects: acl2 axiom ganeti kannel-sqlbox libbonobo lsh-utils lwt mclibs
> numexpr nwchem ocaml-ctypes ocaml-text parmap partclone paw proftmb psi4
> psicode pyresample reiser4progs snort tiledarray ucspi-unix xemacs21 xmonad

Are you sure the list of affected packages of this bug is correct?

>...
> Relevant part of kannel-sqlbox's build log:
> ...
> creposix -lrt -lresolv -lnsl -lm  -lpthread -lxml2 -lpcreposix -lpcre
> -L/usr/lib -lcrypto -lssl -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -lmysqlclient
> -lpthread -lz -lm -ldl -L/usr/local/lib -lsqlite -L/usr/local/lib
> -lsqlite3 -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -L/usr/lib -lhiredis -L/usr/lib -lct
> checking Kannel includes... -I/usr/include/kannel -g -O2
> -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security
> -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -D_LARGE_FILES=
> -I/usr/include/libxml2  -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
> -Wmissing-declarations -Wnested-externs -Winline -Wformat
> -Wformat-security -Wmissing-format-attribute -I/usr/include
> -I/usr/include/mysql -I/usr/include/postgresql -I/usr/include/hiredis
> -I/usr/include
> checking for cfg_create in -lgwlib... no
> configure: error: Kannel gwlib is required!
> ...
> 
> The full build log is available from:
>  https://people.debian.org/~rbalint/build-logs/pie-bindnow-20160906/kannel-sqlbox_0.7.2-4_amd64.build.gz

That seems to be an unrelated issue (see #828362).

> Thanks,
> Balint

cu
Adrian

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