Problem:
While running "make check" in section 10.42. Gettext-0.14.5 64 Bit of CLFS Version 1.0.0rc3-x86_64-Multilib, a number of tests failed with this error:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lrpathy
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[4]: *** [usey] Error 1
It appears to be all of the tests that end in a "c" or a "g". All of the others are either skipped or they pass. There were no failures on the 32-bit tests, just the 64-bit ones.
Solution:
It's a problem linked to the -fPIC parameter which is not correctly set during the compilation of the tests. The book give a sed command to skip bad tests, but it
is not sufficient.
There is two solutions to force the -fPIC option:
- after the configure command, use:
sed -i 's/gcc -m64/gcc -m64 -fPIC/g' autoconf-lib-link/tests/Makefile
It forces -fPIC only for the checks.
- in the configure command, use:
CC="gcc ${BUILD64} -fPIC" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64} -fPIC" \
./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
It uses -fPIC for all the package, including the installed libraries and programs.
With that, all the tests passed without any error.
In addition, the line:
sed -i -e '2iexit 77' autoconf-lib-link/tests/rpath-3*[ef]
can be suppressed from the book.
