Arch Linux

Description: mxml needs to be built with -fPIC flag to be linked against on x86_64 architectures.

Otherwise a some builds could fail with:

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libmxml.a(mxml-attr.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libmxml.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


A solution is to export -fPIC for x86_64 this way:

# fPIC build for x86_64
[ "$CARCH" = x86_64 ] && \
export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fPIC"

another solution is enable shared libraries:

./configure --prefix=/usr \
--enable-shared

when building shared libs -fPIC flag is added automatically.

The less invasive solution would be the first one, so other libraries that links against
mxml do not need to change the mxml build dependency to an effective dependency.

Btw, enabling shared libraries (not built by default) would not be so problematic since
packages currently built against it (dunno which one other than zynaddsubfx) will
continue working, while relative PKGBUILDs could be updated on the next release too.
So, why not enabling shared libs?

Additional info:
package afflicted -> 2.6-x or previous

Steps to reproduce:
linking with -lmxml on a x86_64 system
or try https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50594