As a follow-up on my own problem recompiling perl from scratch with -KPIC resolved the issue - apologies for the list pollution
Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -m64 -KPIC -xarch=generic64 -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV', optimize='-O', cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -m64 -KPIC' ccversion='Sun C 5.10 SunOS_i386 2009/06/03', gccversion='', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags ='-KPIC -xarch=generic64 ' libpth=/usr/lib/amd64 /usr/ccs/lib/amd64 /opt/sunstudio/prod/lib/amd64 /lib/amd64 libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-KPIC' cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -m64 -KPIC' On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Gregory Gabriel <sawe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Does anyone have experience with this? I'm trying to build mod_perl > 2.0.5 on Solaris 10x86_64 with SunStudio 12u1. Perl 5.12.2 is custom > build. Whenever I try to start httpd I get this error > > > httpd: Syntax error on line 412 of /opt/httpd-2.2.17/conf/httpd.conf: > Syntax error on line 1 of /opt/httpd-2.2.17/conf/rt3.conf: Cannot load > /opt/httpd-2.2.17/modules/mod_perl.so into server: ld.so.1: httpd: > fatal: relocation error: R_AMD64_32: file > /opt/httpd-2.2.17/modules/mod_perl.so: symbol PL_mod_latin1_uc: value > 0xfffffd7ffda48b84 does not fit > > This has something to do with position independent code. Here's the > perl -V output > > Compiler: > cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -m64 -xarch=generic64 > -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV', > optimize='-O', > cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -m64' > ccversion='Sun C 5.10 SunOS_i386 2009/06/03', gccversion='', > gccosandvers='' > intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678 > d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 > ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', > lseeksize=8 > alignbytes=8, prototype=define > Linker and Libraries: > ld='cc', ldflags =' -xarch=generic64 ' > libpth=/usr/lib/amd64 /usr/ccs/lib/amd64 > /opt/sunstudio/prod/lib/amd64 /lib/amd64 > libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc > perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc > libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a > gnulibc_version='' > Dynamic Linking: > dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' > cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -m64' > > I'm a bit worried about that -KPIC not appearing in the cflags/ldflags > but I'm not versed enough in this to see the light at the moment. > > Any help would be appreciated > > Gregory >