[odb-users] compile error with libodb-qt module

[Christian Sell]

Hello,

I am setting up a fresh development environment with ODB 2.4, Linux Mint 17 and
Qt 5.4.2 (64 bit). Not that this is the fist time that I have done seomething
similar - but this is the first time I see the following error message when
compiling the libodb-qt module:

QtCore/qglobal.h:1052:4: error: #error "You must build your code with position
independent code if Qt was built with -reduce-relocations. " "Compile your code
with -fPIC (-fPIE is not enough)."
# error "You must build your code with position independent code if Qt was built
with -reduce-relocations. "\

I was able to fix that by setting the CXXFLAGS environment variable to "-fPIC"
before doing the ./configure. However, now when compiling my own code, I am
getting the same message when the ODB compiler is invoked - and I have not been
able to figure out how to mend this. Can anybody hint as to the reason why this
occurs, and how to deal with it?

thanks,
Christian