in `local.conf` made `do_compile` error out with the following message [1].
arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-ld -soname libcap.so.1 -x -shared -o libcap.so.1.10 cap_alloc.o cap_proc.o cap_extint.o cap_flag.o cap_text.o cap_sys.o
arm-angstrom-linux-gnueabi-ld: cap_text.o: relocation R_ARM_MOVW_ABS_NC against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
Khem Raj explained it the following way [2].
Am Mittwoch, den 13.01.2010, 02:27 -0800 schrieb Khem Raj:
> > I also get the same error which I did not get before with GCC 4.1.1.
>
> Older versions of binutils/ld can not detect MOVT/MOVW relocations which
> are absolute and cant be used in PIC code.
> hence even if the error was there it remained latent.
Therefore just append `-fPIC` to the CFLAGS and bump the PR variable.
The strange thing is still, that other distributions seem to have patched libcap to build with `-fPIC` long ago [3–5].