[Bug 1638535] Re: liblzo.a (static library) fails to link on 16.10, AMD64 (needs `-fPIC`)

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: yakkety

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Title:
  liblzo.a (static library) fails to link on 16.10, AMD64 (needs
  `-fPIC`)

Status in lzo2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  See this bug report for details:

  https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz/issues/866

  When linking with `liblzo.a`, the error:

     Build error liblzo2.a(lzo1x_1.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against
  symbol `memset@@GLIBC_2.2.5' can not be used when making a shared
  object; recompile with -fPIC

  occurs, this wasn't a problem on Ubuntu 16.04.

  To test this: following the build steps here can redo the problem:
  https://github.com/opentoonz/opentoonz/blob/master/doc/how_to_build_linux.md

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