[wellylug] compiling troubles

[Edouard Chalaron]

Hi all

I have been unable to recompile some source code that I had for a long
time.
I updated by subversion these sources and still can not compile.
(Packages are not an option, the few I can find are not reliable,
missing or deprecated libs)

For say, the autogen is working fine and configure is going fine too,
however I managed to filter out some warning on the output
of ./configure :

/bin/bash: ./config.rpath: No such file or directory
cat: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf: No such file or directory
cat: /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf: No such file or directory
config.status: WARNING:  po/Makefile.in.in seems to ignore the
--datarootdir setting

That is a bit odd....
That would be a first step.

Since ./configure says to me that all is Ok anyway and I go for a make,
I just do it.

/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libx264.a(common.o): relocation R_X86_64_32
against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object;
recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib/libx264.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libquicktimehv.la] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

I sent the errors to the maintainers of the code, still waiting for an
answer but, with my permanent condition of being a shit magnet, it seems
that I am the only one.

So ... Is it related to the config warnings ? any suggestion, ideas ???
anything ....the fPIC stuff is not in cause according to the
developpers.
X264 has been dowloaded and installed with making a deb package. No
troubles...

Just for testing to eliminate all possible source of trouble I went to
compile a really simple stuff (the driver for the wireless of my
Presario V3000)... does not even compile.

Where I am really P...D off is that this code compiled out of the box
recently.

Distribution is Feisty fawn for AMD64. All libs up to date, but may I
miss some of them

Any help appreciated
THanks
Edouard