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? Thank you, Bill -- ________________________________________________________________ Dr William Murray w.j.murray@xxxxxxxx (44)-1235-446256 RAL, Harwell Science and Innovation Campus, Didcot, OX11 0QX, UK