On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 09:57 +0000, William John Murray wrote: > Hello there, > I am trying to use gsl on F8 with a third party programme > 'root' (root.cern.ch) which needs to be compiled. On i686 this was fine, > but on x86_64 I get: > > usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libgslcblas.a(sasum.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 > against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; > recompile with -fPIC > /usr/lib64/libgslcblas.a: could not read symbols: Bad value > > The advice from that end is tp do what gcc says - compile gsl with > -fPIC. I wondered whether there is a reaction here - could we change the > Fedora build to include this? Uh, did you try linking against the .so library, libgslcblas.so? That's the shared library version and it should be compiled with PIC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - You possess a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
