[gentoo-user] Motif compile fails

[Philip Webb]

As part of updating to the latest stable Xscreensaver,
I tried to emerge its requirement Motif, which failed with this message :

>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8 ...
 * abi_x86_64.amd64: running multilib-minimal_abi_src_compile
make -j9 -C tools/wml CC=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc LIBS=-lfl wmluiltok 
make: Entering directory '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8-abi_x86_64.amd64/tools/wml'
x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8/tools/wml -I../../include -I../../lib/Xm -I../../lib -I/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8/tools/wml/../../lib -I/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8/tools/wml/../../include    -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/uuid   -march=native -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/uuid    -c -o wmluiltok.o /var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8/tools/wml/wmluiltok.c
/bin/sh ../../libtool  --tag=CC   --mode=link x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc  -march=native -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/uuid     -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,--as-needed -o wmluiltok wmluiltok.o -lfl -lfl
libtool: link: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -march=native -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unused -Wno-comment -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/harfbuzz -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib64/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/uuid -Wl,-O1 -o wmluiltok wmluiltok.o  -Wl,--as-needed -lfl
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../lib64/libfl.a(libmain.o): warning: relocation against `exit@@GLIBC_2.2.5' in read-only section `.text.startup'
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../lib64/libfl.a(libmain.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `exit@@GLIBC_2.2.5' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIE
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/10.2.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: final link failed: bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make: *** [Makefile:502: wmluiltok] Error 1
make: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/portage/x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2/work/motif-2.3.8-abi_x86_64.amd64/tools/wml'
 * ERROR: x11-libs/motif-2.3.8-r2::gentoo failed (compile phase):
 *   emake failed

-- end of Portage output --

This looks as if the problem is with Gcc flags, which is rather technical.

Has anyone else run into this ?  Does anyone have suggestions ?

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