Advice sought for ports/vis5d+

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 06:47:16PM +0200, Thierry Thomas wrote:
> On Fri  2 may 08 at 17:39:08 +0200, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at math.missouri.edu>
>  wrote:
> > I am the maintainer of the science/vis5d+ port.  It was recently marked 
> > broken, and I submitted the PR ports/123233 to fix it.  However my fix 
> > doesn't seem to work for the amd64 - 
> > http://amd64.miwibox.org/tb2/errors/6.3-FreeBSD/vis5d+-1.2.1_8.log
> > 
> > The problem seems to be with the libgfx port.  A month or two ago, it must 
> > have somehow been brought in as part of the netcdf port.  But now it 
> > has become necessary to explicitly link against libgfx.a.  For whatever 
> > reason, this doesn't work on the amd64.
> > 
> > Any help or advice much appreciated.
> 
> Hello Stephen,
> 
> The message is:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libgfx.a(time.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> 
> That means that graphics/libgfx should be modified to use -fPIC, and
> better to produce a shared library (maintainer Cc'ed).

Right. Miwi has just asked me about this and I asked him to try
to tweak CFLAGS in libgfx. I can't remember why I didn't convert
libgfx to produce a shared library, but I certainly do it
whenever I can. I'll try to take a closer look soon.

Thanks!