Re: [Qemu-devel] Buildbot failure: multiboot.o link error on OpenBSD current

[Brad Smith]

On 20/11/13 4:15 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> Sorry I forgot to CC qemu-devel on this:
>
> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 10:06 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Hi Brad,
> > The QEMU buildbot is failing on brad_openbsd_current as follows:
> >
> >    Building optionrom/multiboot.img
> > ld: multiboot.o: relocation R_X86_64_16 can not be used when making a
> > shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> > multiboot.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> >
> > http://buildbot.b1-systems.de/qemu/builders/default_openbsd_current/builds/590
> >
> > Do you have time to investigate?
> >
> > If not, please CC people who could help.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Stefan

I have been meaning to try to attempt to come up with a patch to resolve 
this issue but haven't come up with anything. I have a patch in the 
OpenBSD ports tree that allows QEMU to build but its just taking that 
and having it fit within the configure/Makefile infrastructure and 
applied for OpenBSD only.

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/~checkout~/ports/emulators/qemu/patches/patch-pc-bios_optionrom_Makefile?rev=1.1;content-type=text%2Fplain

The issue has come up as OpenBSD 5.3 and newer now builds all binaries 
by default on almost all of our architectures with PIE by default; so 
the ROMs need to be built with PIE disabled.

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