On Mar 10, 3:06 am, Nick Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install PIL from source on my CentOS 4.5 server. The > build summary reports that I have everything installed... > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > PIL 1.1.6 BUILD SUMMARY > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > version 1.1.6 > platform linux2 2.3.4 (#1, Dec 11 2007, 05:28:55) > [GCC 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)] > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- TKINTER support ok > --- JPEG support ok > --- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok > --- FREETYPE2 support ok > > ... but if I try and build it I receive the following error: > > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libjpeg.a(jcparam.o): relocation > R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a > shared object; recompile with -fPIC > > How do I fix this? I am currently running "python setup.py build" and > don't understand how I would change the compiling options to add the "- > fPIC" flag. I'm quite a newbie when it comes to Linux/Python so any > help you could give me would be great. > > Thanks, > Nick
You should be linking against a dynamic version of libjpeg rather than the static version. ie libjpeg.so Looks like you have locally installed libjpeg but only built a static version. Rgds Tim -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
