On 21/12/2007, William John Murray <W.J.Murray@xxxxxxxx> 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? > > Thank you, > Bill As far as I remember Patrice Dumas is working on building/adding root for Fedora, so maybe you should contact him to help with that effort. :-) -- José Abílio
