From: Holger Hans Peter Freyther <holger+oe@freyther.de>
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Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 15:45:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix libicu compilation with GCC-4.4 on mips
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On Wednesday 05 August 2009 02:28:55 Graham Gower wrote:
> Not sure if this one is mips specific or not, but linking fails due to
> missing -fPIC on rematch.o.
>
> | /home/grg/oe/tmp/cross/mipsel/lib/gcc/mipsel-angstrom-linux/4.4.1/../../.
> |./../mipsel-angstrom-linux/bin/ld: rematch.o: relocation R_MIPS_HI16
> | against `__gnu_local_gp' can not be used when making a shared object;
> | recompile with -fPIC
>
> Perhaps someone who experienced the (arm specific?) gcc bug mentioned in
> commit 798c780a3a016e56d9b8849cf8a07521b6e402a9 can confirm this fix does
> not trigger the same bug?


i will test an arm build for you.

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