[Xastir] Ubuntu 6.10 Bootstrap error
John Ronan
jronan at tssg.org
Fri Nov 17 04:29:57 EST 2006
On 17 Nov 2006, at 05:13, Tom Russo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> gcc -O2 -Wall makegeo.o -L/usr/local/lib -L.. -lgeotiff -lproj -
>>>> ltiff -ljpeg -lz -lm -o makegeo
>>>> /usr/bin/ld: makegeo: hidden symbol `__stack_chk_fail_local' in /
>>>> usr/lib/libc_nonshared.a(stack_chk_fail_local.oS) is referenced by
>>>> DSO
>>>> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
>>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>> make[1]: *** [makegeo] Error 1
>>>> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/j0n/sources/xastir/tmp/
>>>> libgeotiff-1.2.3/bin'
>>>> make: *** [Progs] Error 2
>
>
> When I built libgeotiff on my SAR team's Ubuntu machine (one that
> had been
> upgraded from 5.10 through 6.06 to 6.10) I did not see this
> problem, but
> today I did a fresh install of 6.10 on a new laptop and there it
> was. I have
> no idea why there should have been a difference, but there was,
> exactly as
> you and John have both seen.
>
> I tracked down the issue, with the help of google on the error
> message.
> The really helpful search result was this one:
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.general/217819
>
> The issue is that libgeotiff's configure script looks around for
> how to build
> shared libraries, and concludes that it needs to do "ld -shared" to
> make
> libgeotiff.so from its object files. This is, however, completely
> incorrect
> with GCC 4.x. The right thing to do is "gcc -shared"
>
> The workaround is to configure libgeotiff by overriding its
> internal probe
> for the way to do shared libraries. That is, libgeotiff should be
> built
> with
> ./configure --with-ld-shared="gcc -shared"
> make
> sudo make install
>
> Unfortunately, if I were to slam that into get-maptools, it would
> probably
> break the script for some other platform. Instead, I'm documenting
> the
> cheesy hack I did on my temporary copy of get-maptools.sh, and
> adding that
> to the wiki. I've tried to make it so that anyone googling on the
> error
> message would get a quick answer to their question, too, so it has
> unfortunately bloated the step-by-step instructions somewhat. It's
> still
> pretty straightforward.
I'm trying your 'cheesy hack' now Tom on the LiveCD. It didn't seem
to work initially as the Makefile in the 'bin' subdirectory wasn't
receiving the 'gcc -shared' instruction/directive. Just to be sure
its not a weirdness on the liveCD's part, I'm going to start again.
I'll keep you posted.
de John
EI7IG
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