This patch is required because of the following problem when linking the test binary in ./configure. This seems unrelated to OCaml and somehow caused by changes in Tcl (or Fedora) itself: runtest: gcc -o tst -I/usr/local/include/tcl8.5 -I/usr/local/include/tk8.5 -I/usr/local/include tclversion.c -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,--as-needed -Wl,-z,now -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-hardened-ld -specs=/usr/lib/rpm/redhat/redhat-annobin-cc1 -Wl,--build-id=sha1 -lm tclversion.c:21:1: warning: return type defaults to 'int' [-Wimplicit-int] 21 | main () | ^~~~ /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccDzgQio.o: relocation R_RISCV_HI20 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: .gnu.build.attributes has both ordered [`.gnu.build.attributes.lo.exit' in /lib64/lp64d/../lib64/lp64d/Scrt1.o] and unordered [`.gnu.build.attributes' in /lib64/lp64d/../lib64/lp64d/Scrt1.o] sections /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: bad value collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status RWMJ 2022-09-20 --- labltk-8.06.12.old/config/auto-aux/runtest 2022-09-20 14:32:40.445384080 +0100 +++ labltk-8.06.12/config/auto-aux/runtest 2022-09-20 14:37:08.035133820 +0100 @@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ if test "$verbose" = yes; then echo "runtest: $cc -o tst $* $cclibs" >&2 -$cc -o tst $* $cclibs || exit 100 +$cc -fPIC -o tst $* $cclibs || exit 100 else -$cc -o tst $* $cclibs 2> /dev/null || exit 100 +$cc -fPIC -o tst $* $cclibs 2> /dev/null || exit 100 fi exec ./tst