Submitted By: Robert Connolly <robert at linuxfromscratch dot org> (ashes)
Date: 2005-03-08
Initial Package Version: 2.12q
Origin: Based on:
http://ftp.belnet.be/linux/gentoo-portage/sys-apps/util-linux/files/\
        util-linux-2.12b-pic.patch
Upstream Status: Submitted
Description: This is needed for Grsec. http://www..grsecurity.net/
Util linux doesn't build with position independence without this patch.

Also see:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs/

diff -Naur util-linux-2.12q.orig/fdisk/llseek.c util-linux-2.12q/fdisk/llseek.c
--- util-linux-2.12q.orig/fdisk/llseek.c	2003-07-13 21:13:33.000000000 +0000
+++ util-linux-2.12q/fdisk/llseek.c	2005-03-08 22:07:24.980010824 +0000
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 
 #else	/* HAVE_LLSEEK */
 
-#if defined(__alpha__) || defined(__ia64__) || defined(__s390x__)
+#if (defined(__PIC__) || (__pic__) || (__alpha__) || (__ia64__) || (__s390x__)|| (__hppa__))
 
 #define my_llseek lseek
 
diff -Naur util-linux-2.12q.orig/fdisk/sfdisk.c util-linux-2.12q/fdisk/sfdisk.c
--- util-linux-2.12q.orig/fdisk/sfdisk.c	2005-01-04 22:31:57.000000000 +0000
+++ util-linux-2.12q/fdisk/sfdisk.c	2005-03-08 22:09:42.121162200 +0000
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@
  * Note: we use 512-byte sectors here, irrespective of the hardware ss.
  */
 #undef use_lseek
-#if defined (__alpha__) || defined (__ia64__) || defined (__x86_64__) || defined (__s390x__)
+#if (defined(__PIC__) || (__pic__) || (__alpha__) || (__ia64__) || (__x86_64__) || (__s390x__))
 #define use_lseek
 #endif
 
diff -Naur util-linux-2.12q.orig/partx/partx.c util-linux-2.12q/partx/partx.c
--- util-linux-2.12q.orig/partx/partx.c	2004-08-23 20:13:27.000000000 +0000
+++ util-linux-2.12q/partx/partx.c	2005-03-08 22:11:32.108441592 +0000
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@
 /*
  * sseek: seek to specified sector
  */
-#if !defined (__alpha__) && !defined (__ia64__) && !defined (__s390x__) && !defined(__x86_64__)
+#if !(defined(__PIC__) || (__pic__) || (__alpha__) || (__ia64__) || (__s390x__) || (__x86_64__))
 #define NEED__llseek
 #endif