Recompile with -fPIC (was "building a patched ghc")

[Wolfram Kahl]

I am not certain, but this may be the same problem that I once had,
and that was solved by updating to binutils-2.20.

 ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303


Wolfram


On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:34:03AM +0100, José Pedro Magalhães wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm getting the same error as Alexy below in some 64bit linux system. What
> can I do? Adding -fPIC and also -dynamic does not seem to solve the problem.
> Also, this only happens with a perf build; devel1 works fine.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Pedro
> 
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:56, braver <deliverable at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > An attempt to build the trunk gets me this:
> >
> > /opt/portage/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.2.4/../../../../x86_64-
> > pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: rts/dist/build/RtsStartup.dyn_o: relocation
> > R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `StgRun' can not be used when making a
> > shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> >
> > -- I use prefix portage on a CentOS box, admittedly a non-standard
> > setup.  Its gcc is found first and it wants -fPIC...  Should I just
> > add it to CFLAGS or what?
> >
> > -- Alexy
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