[Tinyos-help] BUG: tinyos-2 libtoscomm.so needs -fPIC flag (w/patch)

[Daniel Goertzen]

libtoscomm.so is a shared library but is not built with the -fPIC flag.  I
assume that some systems are forgiving of this, but gentoo x86_64 with
gcc-4.1.1 is not.

Cheers,
Dan.


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RCS file: /cvsroot/tinyos/tinyos-2.x/tools/tinyos/java/serial/Makefile.am,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 Makefile.am
--- tinyos/java/serial/Makefile.am      12 Jul 2006 17:00:46 -0000      1.2
+++ tinyos/java/serial/Makefile.am      9 Jan 2007 20:40:15 -0000
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
   TOSComm_wrap.cxx

 libtoscomm.so: $(libtoscomm_so_SOURCES)
-       $(CXX) -O2 -shared "-I$(JDK)/include" "-I$(JDK)/include/linux" \
+       $(CXX) -fPIC -O2 -shared "-I$(JDK)/include" "-I$(JDK)/include/linux"
\
          -o $@ NativeSerial_linux.cpp

 toscomm.dll: $(toscomm_dll_SOURCES)