[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] libcap: fix static linking issue

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Romain Naour,

On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 22:10:24 +0200, Romain Naour wrote:
> Add -fPIC flag
> 
> Fixes:
> http://autobuild.buildroot.net/results/619bceb3491ecd2ed4e1ae552fdb237a0ed2fa47/
> 
> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at openwide.fr>
> ---
>  package/libcap/libcap.mk | 7 ++++++-
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/package/libcap/libcap.mk b/package/libcap/libcap.mk
> index 16afaef..6248fed 100644
> --- a/package/libcap/libcap.mk
> +++ b/package/libcap/libcap.mk
> @@ -25,10 +25,15 @@ endif
>  # we don't have host-attr
>  HOST_LIBCAP_DEPENDENCIES =
> 
> +ifeq ($(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB),y)
> +LIBCAP_LDFLAGS=-fPIC
> +endif

This seems really weird, because normally, we would expect exactly the
opposite: position independent code is needed for shared libraries, not
for static libraries.

Thomas
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