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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] CMake -fPIC flag

From: Jose Pedro Oliveira <jpo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 01:27:30 +0100
On 2010-05-24 23:20, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 11:49:44PM +0200, Joerg Mayer wrote:
>> Ah, OK, this helps me to get an idea what went wrong: I link two "static"
>> libraries (libwslua and libwspython) into a dynamic lib (libwireshark).
>> This seems to cause the "static" libs to be linked/built without -fPIC.
>> I'll have to think about how to fix that. I'm on a business trip to Londen
>> for a week starting tomorrow, so I don't know whether I'll find the time
>> to look into this during the week (not only because of the work, but also
>> because I want to get and see a bit of London ;-)
>> If nobody beats me to it, I will look at it in a weeks time. Workaround:
>> Disable lua and python support in CMakeOptions.txt
> 
> Sorry, but I haven't found the time to fix it this although the weekend in
> Germany was one day longer.
> Can you please open a bug for the problem? Just to be sure it doesn't
> get lost - I still intend to look into the problem soon'ish.

Joerg,

Problem reported as ticket #4788.
(https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4788)

Regards,
jpo
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