hexchat @2.14.2: ERROR: Linker APPLE ld does not support position-independent executable

[friguron (friguron)]

Hi, I've been using and building macports hexchat for months. I had to uninstall it in summer, and the other day I had to reinstall it again. What happened? It just doesn't build, it complains with a strange error. (output of the suggested error log file):

WARNING: Project specifies a minimum meson_version '>= 0.38.0' but uses features which were added in newer versions:
 * 0.50.0: {'install arg in configure_file'}

My meson version is 0.52.0

I've tried to clean, uninstall, purge, etc... to no avail.

Any hint?

Version list: Macports 2.6.2, Xcode 11.0, OSX: Mojave 10.14.6 (was failing with 10.14.5 also)

[friguron (friguron)]

meson-log.txt file which the alleged problem (when trying to clean build hexchat)

[kencu (Ken)]

Some test compile is not working. Might just need a flag -PIE or similar?...have to see what the exact test build line is...

ERROR: Linker APPLE ld does not support position-independent executable

[kencu (Ken)]

This "hack" worked to fix it for MacPorts, but it's not an upstreamable fix:

$ diff -u src/fe-gtk/meson.build.orig src/fe-gtk/meson.build
--- src/fe-gtk/meson.build.orig	2019-12-08 18:50:18.000000000 -0800
+++ src/fe-gtk/meson.build	2019-12-08 18:50:41.000000000 -0800
@@ -40,11 +40,11 @@
 endif
 
 hexchat_gtk_cflags = [
-  '-fPIE'
+  ''
 ]
 
 hexchat_gtk_ldflags = [
-  '-pie'
+  ''
 ]
 
 if get_option('with-libnotify')

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Fixed in 2.16.0; see ​https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/commit/eeada79a64b7188f2f820cd45328cf2daa20f9e2