Re: [gentoo-amd64] Amarok, openoffice, transcode & xine-lib emerge failures.

[Cédric Godin]

On 02/23/10 14:36, Paul Stear wrote:
> Hi all,
> Yesterday I tried an update world but amarok was blocking the update of mysql.
> Messages said to remove amarok, do the world update and then emerge amarok.
> I now have a system that is running well except amarok keeps failing with the
> error at the end of this message. Also listed is emerge info and attached build
> log and environment.
> I also have failures with openoffice, transcode and xine-lib
> Thanks in advance for any help
> Paul
>
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.3.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqld.a(client.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against
> `mysql_server_last_error' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/lib64/mysql/libmysqld.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>

try to create a mysql file in /etc/portage/env/dev-db dir (mkdir -p 
/etc/portage/env/dev-db) with the following content :

CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -DPIC -fPIC"
CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -DPIC -fPIC"

You have to use these C(XX)FLAGS to create the embedded mysql server.

HTH

Cedric