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Compile options prevent use in a shared library

Bug #1774011 reported by Alan Griffiths
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Bug Description

Trying to build the Mir and wlcs test suites on 18.10 Cosmic I get the error:

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgtest.a(gtest-all.cc.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `_ZTVSt9basic_iosIcSt11char_traitsIcEE@@GLIBCXX_3.4' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

I doubt Mir is the only project to make use of libgtest in shared objects. The libgtest should be compiled with -fPIC.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package googletest - 1.8.0-10ubuntu1

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googletest (1.8.0-10ubuntu1) cosmic; urgency=medium

  * Build with -fPIC. There's nothing performance critical here which benefits
    from position-dependent code, and building with -fPIC allows the pre-built
    library to be linked into shared code. (LP: #1774011)

 -- Christopher James Halse Rogers <email address hidden> Wed, 06 Jun 2018 13:24:29 +1000

Changed in googletest (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Released
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