After patching the source code of wpa_supplicant 0.6.10, building under RHEL 6 x86_64 fails at: cc -shared ../utils/common.o ../utils/os_unix.o ../utils/wpa_debug.o .../utils/base64.o ../utils/wpabuf.o ../crypto/md5.o ../crypto/rc4.o .../crypto/md4.o ../crypto/sha1.o ../crypto/des.o ../crypto/aes_wrap.o .../crypto/aes.o ../crypto/ms_funcs.o ../crypto/sha256.o .../eap_common/eap_peap_common.o ../eap_common/eap_psk_common.o .../eap_common/eap_pax_common.o ../eap_common/eap_sake_common.o .../eap_common/eap_gpsk_common.o ../eap_common/chap.o .../crypto/tls_openssl.o ../crypto/crypto_openssl.o ../eap_peer/eap_tls.o .../eap_peer/eap_peap.o ../eap_peer/eap_ttls.o ../eap_peer/eap_md5.o .../eap_peer/eap_mschapv2.o ../eap_peer/mschapv2.o ../eap_peer/eap_otp.o .../eap_peer/eap_gtc.o ../eap_peer/eap_leap.o ../eap_peer/eap_psk.o .../eap_peer/eap_pax.o ../eap_peer/eap_sake.o ../eap_peer/eap_gpsk.o .../eap_peer/eap.o ../eap_common/eap_common.o ../eap_peer/eap_methods.o .../eap_peer/eap_tls_common.o -Wl,-soname -Wl,libeap.so.0 -o libeap.so.0.0.0 -lssl -lcrypto /usr/bin/ld: ../utils/common.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC .../utils/common.o: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status If I do not apply the patch then building wpa_supplicant 0.6.10 is successful. David
