On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 12:06 -0400, Ward, David - 0663 - MITLL wrote: > Although adding "-fPIC" to CFLAGS does fix the build, I don't think > should be necessary -- a better solution would be to update the patch to > add in "-fPIC" where needed in the Makefile(s). I can look into this. > (Before I tried with CFLAGS set to the rpmbuild-default ones, or with no > CFLAGS at all.) > > Also I was curious if the changes in this patch have been proposed upstream? It's been talked about, especially at the 2009 wireless summit in Portland. But it hasn't gone anyhere since then AFAIK. Dan > David > > > On 09/09/10 11:46, Dan Williams wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 09:58 -0400, Ward, David - 0663 - MITLL wrote: > > > After patching the source code of wpa_supplicant 0.6.10, building > > > under RHEL 6 x86_64 fails at: > > > > So add -fPIC to your CFLAGS before building then perhaps... What CFLAGS > > are you using to build it? I've been able to easily get it to build on > > F13 x86_64 (which is quite similar to RHEL6). I was using the normal > > F13 build flags from RPM macros that packages would use if rebuilt using > > rpmbuild. > > > > Dan > > > > > cc -shared ../utils/common.o ../utils/os_unix.o ../utils/wpa_debug.o > > > .../utils/base64.o ../utils/wpabuf.o ../crypto/md5.o ../crypto/rc4.o > > > .../crypto/md4.o ../crypto/sha1.o ../crypto/des.o ../crypto/aes_wrap.o > > > .../crypto/aes.o ../crypto/ms_funcs.o ../crypto/sha256.o > > > .../eap_common/eap_peap_common.o ../eap_common/eap_psk_common.o > > > .../eap_common/eap_pax_common.o ../eap_common/eap_sake_common.o > > > .../eap_common/eap_gpsk_common.o ../eap_common/chap.o > > > .../crypto/tls_openssl.o ../crypto/crypto_openssl.o > > ../eap_peer/eap_tls.o > > > .../eap_peer/eap_peap.o ../eap_peer/eap_ttls.o ../eap_peer/eap_md5.o > > > .../eap_peer/eap_mschapv2.o ../eap_peer/mschapv2.o ../eap_peer/eap_otp.o > > > .../eap_peer/eap_gtc.o ../eap_peer/eap_leap.o ../eap_peer/eap_psk.o > > > .../eap_peer/eap_pax.o ../eap_peer/eap_sake.o ../eap_peer/eap_gpsk.o > > > .../eap_peer/eap.o ../eap_common/eap_common.o ../eap_peer/eap_methods.o > > > .../eap_peer/eap_tls_common.o -Wl,-soname -Wl,libeap.so.0 -o > > > libeap.so.0.0.0 -lssl -lcrypto > > > /usr/bin/ld: ../utils/common.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.bss' > > > can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC > > > .../utils/common.o: could not read symbols: Bad value > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > > > > > If I do not apply the patch then building wpa_supplicant 0.6.10 is > > > successful. > > > > > > David > > > _______________________________________________ > > > wimax mailing list > > > wimax at linuxwimax.org > > > http://lists.linuxwimax.org/listinfo/wimax > > > > > >
