%general-entities; ]> Gettext Gettext fails to pass -fPIC to the testsuite for its internal libtool. On x86_64 it is not possible to link statically linked archives compiled without -fPIC against shared objects and the suite stops without running the main body of the tests. Use the following sed to add this into the TESTS_ENVIRONMENT parameters: sed -i \ "s/CC='@CC@' CFLAGS='@CFLAGS@'/CC='@CC@' CFLAGS='@CFLAGS@ -fPIC'/" \ autoconf-lib-link/tests/Makefile.in