[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Linux x86-64 (Ubuntu 6.06), the latest R sources from the > Subversion trunk fail to build with the following "recompile with > -fPIC" error: > > $ ./configure --with-x=yes --prefix=$inst_dir --enable-R-shlib > --with-tcltk=/usr/lib/tcl8.4 --with-tcl-config=/usr/lib/tcl8.4/tclConfig.sh > $ make > > /usr/bin/ld: ../appl/approx.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local > symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC > ../appl/approx.o: could not read symbols: Bad value > > This is easy to fix by changing 4 lines in the configure script from > "-fpic" to -fPIC", as shown in the patch below. > > I saw this failure on an Intel x86-64 server, running Ubuntu 6.06: > > $ uname -srvm > Linux 2.6.20.4 #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Mar 31 07:46:01 EDT 2007 x86_64 > > $ cat /etc/lsb-release > DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu > DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.06 > DISTRIB_CODENAME=dapper > DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS" > > $ grep name /proc/cpuinfo > model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.80GHz > model name : Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.80GHz > > $ dpkg -l libc6 > ||/ Name Version Description > > +++-========-====================-================================================= > ii libc6 2.3.6-0ubuntu20.4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries and > Timezone data > > $ apt-cache show libc6 | grep Architecture | uniq > Architecture: amd64 > > Here's a patch which fixes the problem: > > > $ svn diff configure > Index: configure > =================================================================== > --- configure (revision 43265) > +++ configure (working copy) > @@ -32806,7 +32806,7 @@ > cpicflags="-fPIC" > ;; > *) > - cpicflags="-fpic" > + cpicflags="-fPIC" > ;; > esac > shlib_ldflags="-shared" > @@ -32817,7 +32817,7 @@ > fpicflags="-fPIC" > ;; > *) > - fpicflags="-fpic" > + fpicflags="-fPIC" > ;; > esac > fi > @@ -32827,7 +32827,7 @@ > cxxpicflags="-fPIC" > ;; > *) > - cxxpicflags="-fpic" > + cxxpicflags="-fPIC" > ;; > esac > shlib_cxxldflags="-shared" > @@ -47768,7 +47768,7 @@ > fcpicflags="-fPIC" > ;; > *) > - fcpicflags="-fpic" > + fcpicflags="-fPIC" > ;; > esac > fi > > Fedora 7 seems perfectly happy with -fpic, and that patch looks unhealthy (for one thing, you shouldn't mess with that script directly, but use autoconf and aclocal on oter source files, for another, you are prescribing that -fPIC is to be used for all architectures.
Whic compiler/linker is this? -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Ă˜ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) FAX: (+45) 35327907 ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel