Fails on FreeBSD 9.x

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t/00-use.t ....... ok
t/eud.t .......... ok
Use of uninitialized value $lib in concatenation (.) or string at t/static_link.t line 57.

#   Failed test 'linked '
#   at t/static_link.t line 57.
# cc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector -o t/static_link/main.so t/static_link/main.o -L_alien/dontpanic-1.0/src -L_alien/dontpanic-1.0/src/.libs -L-L/usr/home/eserte/.cpan/build/Acme-Alien-DontPanic-0.019-7QSasV/_alien/dontpanic-1.0/lib -ldontpanic
# /usr/bin/ld: _alien/dontpanic-1.0/src/libdontpanic.a(libdontpanic.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
# _alien/dontpanic-1.0/src/libdontpanic.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 3.
t/static_link.t .. 
Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/3 subtests 

Test Summary Report
-------------------
t/static_link.t (Wstat: 256 Tests: 3 Failed: 1)
  Failed test:  3
  Non-zero exit status: 1
Files=3, Tests=6,  0 wallclock secs ( 0.04 usr  0.02 sys +  0.58 cusr  0.11 csys =  0.74 CPU)
Result: FAIL
Failed 1/3 test programs. 1/6 subtests failed.

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• I am able to reproduce this on my FreeBSD 9.x VM --with-pic is being passed into configure and the configure script IS detecting the correct flags, but not apparently using them.
• FreeBSD 10.x is not affected (big difference betwwen 9.x and 10.x is the latter uses clang instead of gcc as the default compiler)
• I am able to install Alien::FFI and FFI::platypus on FreeBSD 9.x. So I suspect the problem lies in the dontpanic C package.

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Little more digging, and it looks like it is building two libdontpanic.a files. One which uses the correct -fPIC flag and the other that does not. Unfortunately the one that appears firs with -L is the one that doesn't have -fPIC. This is also the one that gets installed so even if I do install Acme::Alien::DontPanic, installing Acme::Ford::Prefect will fail with this same problem.

The relevant documentation for autoconf appears to be :

http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool/manual/html_node/LT_005fINIT.html

but is not helping me figure it out.

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Problem was due to the Makefile.am file in the src directory.