Dan Axtell wrote:
Hi,
I've recently upgraded my main linux machine, but unfortunately the
distribution (OpenSuse 11.0, AMD x86_64) has everything with Perl 5.10. I
have some software that runs under mod_perl that requires Perl 5.8.8. No
problem, I just build 5.8.8, right?
Well, after two days I was able to get Perl and all my modules to build, but
mod_perl won't link with this error:
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/CORE/libperl.a(perl.o): relocation
R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared
object; recompilewith -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux/CORE/libperl.a: could not read
symbols: Bad value
I'm trying to recompile Perl with -fPIC, but I can't get it to build at all
now. So trying to understand some basics here: what are the Perl
requirements? Should Perl be built with static or dynamic libraries?
You will need to compile perl with -fPIC on x86_64, I think I did it with:
ccflags='-fPIC' sh Configure -Dprefix /path to perl
I can't remember _exactly_ if that was it though. The other options
would be to manually the edit the Makefiles but I don't remember having
to do that.
Thanks,
Dan
