Re: Bug#1121530: libreoffice: Please build with -fPIE on sparc64 to fix FTBFS

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.openoffice,gmane.linux.debian.ports.sparc
Message-ID <5143d1bbebad66007c4fcf495db58ec534effb72.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Hello,

On Fri, 2025-11-28 at 09:46 +0100, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On Fri, 2025-11-28 at 09:34 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > Upstream patches related to/for lp-solve I mean:
> > 
> > <https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/refs/heads/master/external/lpsolve/>
> 
> Yes, I'm aware of this.
> 
> > In any way you need to teach ccc -fPIE. But then I'd wonder why lp-solve in
> > Debian built... That one has "just" -fPIC.
> 
> Please see my other mail. I said, I'm going to replace "-fpic" with "-fPIC".
> 
> -fpic/-fPIC is for libraries, -fpie/-fPIE for executables.
> 
> > See salsa.debian.org/math-team/lp-solve
> 
> Which confirms my theory ;-).

The attached patch replaces "-fpic" with "-fPIC" in the lp-solve build script which
seems to be enough to fix this particular build issue on sparc64.

Thanks,
Adrian

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lp-solve-fPIC.diff (text/x-patch, 437 B)
--- /home/glaubitz/loffice/libreoffice-26.2.0~alpha1/workdir/UnpackedTarball/lpsolve/lpsolve55/ccc.orig	2025-11-28 10:13:07.347841660 +0100
+++ /home/glaubitz/loffice/libreoffice-26.2.0~alpha1/workdir/UnpackedTarball/lpsolve/lpsolve55/ccc	2025-11-28 10:29:28.092478983 +0100
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
      a=a
      soprefix=lib
      libs="-lm"
-     pic=-fpic
+     pic=-fPIC
      ldflags="-Wl,-Bsymbolic -Wl,-soname,liblpsolve55.$so"
 fi
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