It's works with cygwin which is slightly older still , however cygnus do patch 
it though.By default on linux both shared and static builds are attempted , 
perhaps trying each one on it's own might resolve the issue.
ie

--disable-shared --enable-static
and
--disable-static --enable-shared

Jason



On Thursday 18 November 2010 22:41:23 Bill Hart wrote:
> That same set of options with gcc 4.4.3 works fine on my x86_64 linux
> machine. Jeff's gcc is very old. Don't know if that's significant
> though. It technically should build.
> 
> Bill.
> 
> On 18 November 2010 22:29, Jason <ja...@njkfrudils.plus.com> wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 November 2010 20:17:03 Jeff Gilchrist wrote:
> >> Some rc2 tests.  Here are the ones that passed:
> >> 
> >> 1. Intel Xeon X5550 running Linux 64bit
> >> ./config.guess = nehalem-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> ICC v11.0 with --enable-cxx = All tests passed
> >> ICC v11.0 with --enable-cxx --enable-assert --enable-fat = All tests
> >> passed GCC v4.1.2 with --enable-cxx = All tests passed
> >> GCC v4.1.2 with --enable-cxx --enable-assert --enable-fat = All tests
> >> passed
> >> 
> >> 2. Intel Xeon E5405 running Linux 64bit
> >> ./config.guess = penryn-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> ICC v11.0 with --enable-cxx = All tests passed
> >> ICC v11.0 with --enable-cxx --enable-assert --enable-fat = All tests
> >> passed GCC v4.1.2 with --enable-cxx = All tests passed
> >> GCC v4.1.2 with --enable-cxx --enable-assert --enable-fat = All tests
> >> passed
> >> 
> >> 3. AMD Opteron 248 running Linux 64bit
> >> ./config.guess = k8-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> GCC 3.4.6 with --enable-cxx = All tests passed
> >> 
> >> 4. Intel Core2 running cygwin32 (older version of cygwin)
> >> ./config.guess = core2-pc-cygwin
> >> GCC 3.4.4  with --enable-cxx = All tests passed
> >> 
> >> 5. Intel Core2 running Windows Vista 32bit
> >> MS Visual Studio 2008 Express (pentium4 32bit project) = All tests
> >> passed
> >> 
> >> 
> >> Here is the one that failed:
> >> 
> >> 1. AMD Opteron 248 running Linux 64bit
> >> ./config.guess = k8-unknown-linux-gnu
> >> GCC 3.4.6 with --enable-cxx --enable-assert --enable-fat = FAIL
> >> /usr/bin/ld: mpn/.libs/fat_entry.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against
> >> `_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_' can not be used when making a shared object;
> >> recompile with -fPIC
> >> mpn/.libs/fat_entry.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> >> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> >> make[2]: *** [libmpir.la] Error 1
> > 
> > I'm assuming case 3 is on the same machine as the failed case ?
> > 
> > Did the previous mpir v2.1 fail with the same options ?
> > 
> > Can you try it without the --enable-assert to see if it's some old
> > assertion getting in the way , and also perhaps without --enable-cxx to
> > see if it's the c++ being a problem.
> > Do you have another compiler on that system to try ? , in case it is that
> > particular compiler setup.
> > 
> > You could try replacing mpn/x86_64/fat/fat_entry.asm with the version
> > from mpir v2.1 , as the file has changed , but only a little bit !
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Jason
> > 
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