From: Andreas Stieger Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 11:30:56 +0200 Subject: Compilation fails with qt5 5.4.1 and autotools due to lack of -fPIC References: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11230 Upstream: not yet Workaround for compilation error on Factory: [ 1248s] In file included from /usr/include/qt5/QtGui/qwindowdefs.h:37:0, [ 1248s] from /usr/include/qt5/QtWidgets/qwidget.h:37, [ 1248s] from /usr/include/qt5/QtWidgets/qframe.h:37, [ 1248s] from /usr/include/qt5/QtWidgets/QFrame:1, [ 1248s] from accordion_frame.h:25, [ 1248s] from accordion_frame.cpp:26: [ 1248s] /usr/include/qt5/QtCore/qglobal.h:1052:4: error: #error "You must build your code with position independent code if Qt was built with -reduce-relocations. " "Compile your code with -fPIC (-fPIE is not enough)." [ 1248s] # error "You must build your code with position independent code if Qt was built with -reduce-relocations. "\ [ 1248s] ^ Should be considered a temporary fix. Some discussion: https://build.opensuse.org/request/show/314996 Index: wireshark-2.0.1/configure.ac =================================================================== --- wireshark-2.0.1.orig/configure.ac +++ wireshark-2.0.1/configure.ac @@ -1079,18 +1079,18 @@ AC_WIRESHARK_LDFLAGS_CHECK([-Wl,--as-nee # in the address space to make attacks more difficult. # WS_CHECKED_CFLAGS_before_pie="$WS_CHECKED_CFLAGS" -AC_WIRESHARK_COMPILER_FLAGS_CHECK(-fPIE, C) +AC_WIRESHARK_COMPILER_FLAGS_CHECK(-fPIC, C) if test "x$can_add_to_cflags" = "xyes" then # Restore CFLAGS WS_CHECKED_CFLAGS="$WS_CHECKED_CFLAGS_before_pie" LDFLAGS_before_pie="$LDFLAGS" - AC_WIRESHARK_LDFLAGS_CHECK([-fPIE -pie]) + AC_WIRESHARK_LDFLAGS_CHECK([-fPIC -pie]) if test "x$LDFLAGS" != "x$LDFLAGS_before_pie" then # We can use PIE - PIE_CFLAGS="-fPIE" + PIE_CFLAGS="-fPIC" PIE_LDFLAGS="-pie" # Restore LDFLAGS