Subject: Re: AbiWord fails to build on x86_64-linux and mips64el-linux

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 21:37:33 +0200

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Marek Benc <[email-masked]> skribis:

> Seems like ots and fribidi need to be compiled as position independent
> code.

That’s not the problem: both libots-1.{a,so} are available, for
instance, but AbiWord ends up liking its plug-in (a shared library)
against libots-1.a, which is naturally not PIC, hence the problem.

I investigated a bit but couldn’t find any obvious clue.

Ludo’.