Libtool error while installing net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.5.10

RAPHEAD

I have the following issue while emerging cyrus-imapd:

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 8:42 am Post subject:

RAPHEAD · Posted: Fri Jan 06, 2017 5:11 pm Post subject:

thanks for the reply! That sounds like a hacky thing and in 15 years of Gentoo I cannot remember that I needed to do this before.
Is this something that qualifies as a bug? In that case I will raise an issue.

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 22148

Someone else already filed a bug for it in mid-December: net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.5.10 - ld: /usr/lib64/libcyrus_min.a(libconfig.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC. The inline build log in that bug looks like it is the same error you posted here.

RAPHEAD · Posted: Sat Jan 07, 2017 8:47 pm Post subject:

many thanks!

boyan7640 · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2010 Posts: 4

I have tried to recompile package with force -fPIC in package.env but it didn't worked for me.
It seems the number of affected users are growing - https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602646 but still no workaround or permanent solution for more than two months

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Any other suggestion/s?

RAPHEAD · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 8:36 am Post subject:

I Agree, this package should just compile on AMD64 with all other packages recent w/o hacks.

z0ny · Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 6:17 am Post subject:

Any news on this? cyrus-imapd 2.4 will be masked soon but the "stabilized" version 2.5 does not build without hacks. Sounds a bit weird...
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RAPHEAD · Posted: Sun May 21, 2017 12:31 pm Post subject:

no chnage, even with everything up-to-date

z0ny · Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 9:09 am Post subject:

Sad enough the related bug is even still in state UNCONFIRMED.

By the way, which packages have to be built with -fPIC? It seems not enough to build net-mail/cyrus-imapd with it on my machines.
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ChrisJumper · Advocate Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2395 Location: Germany

Hi z0ny!

I got the errors too and i will not upgrading to 3.0.1 because on the cyrusimap.org page is a longer howto about upgrading to Version 3.0.1 from 2.x.

The installation failed if cyrus 2.x is still installed. But when you remove it first with emerge -C cyrus and reemerge it again the installation went through. But i am not fine because i have this warnings:

RAPHEAD · Posted: Thu May 25, 2017 6:49 pm Post subject:

I did try to mess around with fpic yet, I thought it's an easy thing to fix in the ebuild and that we will get it soon.

abu999 · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2004 Posts: 4

Same problem here!

I moved
mv /usr/lib64/libcyrus_min.a /usr/lib64/libcyrus_min.a_sav
mv /usr/lib64/libcyrus.a /usr/lib64/libcyrus.a_sav
and cyrus-imapd was successfully compilded and installed. I also get a lot of warnings:
libtool: warning: '/dev/shm/portage/net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.5.10/work/cyrus-imapd-2.5.10/com_err/et/libcyrus_com_err.la' has not been installed in '/usr/lib64'
libtool: warning: '/dev/shm/portage/net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.5.10/work/cyrus-imapd-2.5.10/lib/libcyrus_min.la' has not been installed in '/usr/lib64'
libtool: warning: '/dev/shm/portage/net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.5.10/work/cyrus-imapd-2.5.10/lib/libcyrus.la' has not been installed in '/usr/lib64'
but cyrus-imapd is working.

ChrisJumper · Advocate Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 2395 Location: Germany

Small OT-Question to other Cyrus users:

dbishop · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 107

I just ran into a similar problem with net-mail/cyrus-imapd-2.5.10

The work-around posted by abu999 above worked perfectly for me. We can probably take this bug a little more seriously now

cwbailey · n00b Joined: 29 Dec 2017 Posts: 2 Location: Columbia

FWIW - I was able to avoid the problem by removing those two static libraries in /usr/lib64/cyrus which were placed there. Those old libs seem to be picked up by the linker and don't resolve all the symbols(?). Then reinstalling 3.0.4 went right in.

-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxxx 1245510 Apr 15 2015 libcyrus.a
-rw-r--r-- 1 xxxx xxx 165256 Apr 15 2015 libcyrus_min.a

(And, as a reminder - DON'T forget to migrate any existing Berkely .db databases with the cvt_cyrusdb utility from your OLD install first! You'll lose the utility on update *guilty*)