[Announcement] Tinc version 1.1pre10 released

[Lance Fredrickson]

Just to say I have, I just tried to with '-fPIC' without success.
The error happens at the very end when everything it getting linked.  In 
the error I mentioned, it doesn't even look like it's gotten to linking 
the external libraries, it's 'crtbeginT.o' which is in the toolchain 
path.  The only time I've ever seen '-fPIC' errors, is when trying to 
link shared libraries.  My '-static' in LIBS should prevent any shared 
linking, it should only try to link static libraries . -fPIC shouldn't 
even come up as an issue as I see it, it has to deal with shared 
libraries.  It seems in the latest version of 1.1, something has become 
hard-coded to only link with shared libraries.  It also seems hard-coded 
to only recognize when shared libraries are present when running 
configure, but in 1.1pre9 it would recognize when only static libraries 
were present.

https://github.com/lancethepants/tinc-mipsel-static/blob/master/tinc.sh
This is the script I've created to compile tinc.  It's works just fine 
as is with 1.1pre9.  When I simply replace the source url to 1.1pre10 it 
no longer compiles and gives the error I mentioned.

-Lance Fredrickson

On 2/10/2014 5:16 PM, folkert wrote:
> The error message suggests adding -fPIC to CFLAGS - have you tried that?
>
> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 02:44:57PM -0700, Lance Fredrickson wrote:
>> I'm having trouble compiling this.  I typically create a static
>> binary for mips devices for use in routers of different firmwares.
>> Typically I create static libraries on which tinc is dependent  (lzo
>> zlib openssl ncurses readline) . In this release, tinc doesn't see
>> the static libraries, just the development .h files when running
>> ./configure.  So I compiled static and shared libraries, so it will
>> make it through the configure script.  Then when I compile tinc I
>> run
>>
>> make LIBS="-static -lcrypto -ldl -llzo2 -lz"
>> and this typcically will give me static binaries.
>>
>> But with pre10 I get this.
>>
>> /opt/entware-toolchain/lib/gcc/mipsel-linux-uclibc/4.6.4/../../../../mipsel-linux-uclibc/bin/ld:
>> /opt/entware-toolchain/lib/gcc/mipsel-linux-uclibc/4.6.4/crtbeginT.o:
>> relocation R_MIPS_HI16 against `a local symbol' can not be used when
>> making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>> /opt/entware-toolchain/lib/gcc/mipsel-linux-uclibc/4.6.4/crtbeginT.o:
>> could not read symbols: Bad value
>>
>> I think maybe it's trying to static link to libc. For some reason
>> this release is hating anything I try to link statically.
>>
>> -Lance Fredrickson
>>
>> On 2/7/2014 2:57 PM, Guus Sliepen wrote:
>>> With pleasure we announce the release of tinc version 1.1pre10. Here is a
>>> summary of the changes:
>>>
>>>   * Added a benchmark tool (sptps_speed) for the new protocol.
>>>
>>>   * Fixed a crash when using Name = $HOST while $HOST is not set.
>>>
>>>   * Use AES-256-GCM for the new protocol.
>>>
>>>   * Updated support for Solaris.
>>>
>>>   * Allow running tincd without a private ECDSA key present when
>>>     ExperimentalProtocol is not explicitly set.
>>>
>>>   * Enable various compiler hardening flags by default.
>>>
>>>   * Added support for a "conf.d" configuration directory.
>>>
>>>   * Fix tinc-gui on Windows, also allowing it to connect to a 32-bits tincd when
>>>     tinc-gui is run in a 64-bits Python environment.
>>>
>>>   * Added a "ListenAddress" option, which like BindToAddress adds more listening
>>>     address/ports, but doesn't bind to them for outgoing sockets.
>>>
>>>   * Make invitations work better when the "invite" and "join" commands are not
>>>     run interactively.
>>>
>>>   * When creating meta-connections to a node for which no Address statement is
>>>     specified, try to use addresses learned from other nodes.
>>>
>>> Thanks to Dennis Joachimsthaler and Florent Clairambault for their contribution
>>> to this version of tinc.
>>>
>>> Please note that although tinc 1.1pre10 is backwards compatible with tinc 1.0.x,
>>> it is NOT compatible with tinc 1.1pre1 through 1.1pre9.
>>>
>>>
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> Folkert van Heusden
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