[DSE-Dev] Bug#1121124: libselinux: FTBFS on x32: "recompile with -fPIC"

[Luke Yasuda]

Source: libselinux
Version: 3.9-2
Severity: important
Tags: ftbfs
Justification: fails to build from source (but built successfully in the past)
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-amd64 at lists.debian.org
User: debian-x32 at lists.debian.org
Usertags: x32

Hi!

libselinux 3.9-2 FTBFS on x32 (but 3.9-1 was fine):
https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=libselinux&arch=x32&ver=3.9-2&stamp=1760853517&raw=0


cc -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -g -O2 -Werror=implicit-function-declaration -ffile-prefix-map=/build/reproducible-path/libselinux-3.9=. -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -specs=/usr/share/dpkg/pie-compile.specs -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fcf-protection -fno-semantic-interposition -Wall -Wextra -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I../include -D_GNU_SOURCE -DNO_ANDROID_BACKEND -DUSE_PCRE2 -DPCRE2_CODE_UNIT_WIDTH=8 -DHAVE_STRLCPY -DHAVE_REALLOCARRAY -flto=auto -ffat-lto-objects -specs=/usr/share/dpkg/pie-link.specs -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -shared -o libselinux.so.1 avc.lo avc_internal.lo avc_sidtab.lo booleans.lo callbacks.lo canonicalize_context.lo checkAccess.lo check_context.lo checkreqprot.lo compute_av.lo compute_create.lo compute_member.lo compute_relabel.lo compute_user.lo context.lo deny_unknown.lo disable.lo enabled.lo fgetfilecon.lo freecon.lo freeconary.lo fsetfilecon.lo get_context_list.lo get_default_type.lo get_initial_context.lo getenforce.lo getfilecon.lo getpeercon.lo init.lo is_customizable_type.lo label.lo label_db.lo label_file.lo label_media.lo label_support.lo label_x.lo lgetfilecon.lo load_policy.lo lsetfilecon.lo mapping.lo matchmediacon.lo matchpathcon.lo policyvers.lo procattr.lo query_user_context.lo regex.lo reject_unknown.lo selinux_check_securetty_context.lo selinux_config.lo selinux_internal.lo selinux_restorecon.lo sestatus.lo setenforce.lo setexecfilecon.lo setfilecon.lo setrans_client.lo seusers.lo sha1.lo stringrep.lo validatetrans.lo -lpcre2-8   -ldl -Wl,-soname,libselinux.so.1,--version-script=libselinux.map,-z,defs,-z,relro
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccWITxzC.ltrans2.ltrans.o: warning: relocation against `selinux_mnt' in read-only section `.text.exit'
/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccWITxzC.ltrans0.ltrans.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `stderr@@GLIBC_2.16' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [Makefile:171: libselinux.so.1] Error 1



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 13.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.12.48+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/128 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled