I believe that was the problem I had and refered to. Same error
message when building the .so. My solution was to build the object on a
32-bit platform, and then import it in. It works to some degree, but
not fully, so I'm back to square one. The relocation bit is what killed
the goose...
Alex White wrote:
> James Bond wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> i am trying to compile the latest version of orca source code on
>> CentOS 4.0 system running amd64 bit processor. I am getting the
>> following error:
>
>
> <snipped>
>
>> /usr/bin/ld: ../src/.libs//librrd_private.a(parsetime.o): relocation
>> R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a
>> shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>> ../src/.libs//librrd_private.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[5]: *** [blib/arch/auto/RRDs/RRDs.so] Error 1
>> make[5]: Leaving directory
>> `/usr/local/src/orca-snapshot-r407/packages/rrdtool-1.0.49/perl-shared'
>>
>>
>> what should i do to fix this problem and get it working?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> James
>
>
>
> relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when
> making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>
> Have you tried the suggest fix by the compiler? Or have you attempted
> this and is simply bombs out in some horrid fashion still? There was a
> similar thread about this last week I think. You may want to search
> the archives.
>
> HTH
>
> Alex White
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