[Gnash-dev] Error when building on gentoo x86_64: boost... recompile with -fPIC

[Robin Atwood]

I am trying to compile gnash 0.8.5 on Gentoo X86_64 against Qt4/KDE4. This 
required some patching of the configure script but now everything is found and 
the compile starts. However, I almost immediately hit:

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.2.3/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: 
/usr/lib64/libboost_thread-mt-s.a(thread.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a 
local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -
fPIC
/usr/lib64/libboost_thread-mt-s.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [libgnashbase.la] Error 1

Searching this lists archives finds: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-
dev/2008-04/msg00002.html. There does not seem to be a resolution. I 
customised my CFLAGS to include "-fPIC -DPIC" but it makes no difference. 
Version 0.8.4 did not get this error, is it an environmental problem?

TIA
-Robin
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