All of my attempts to build R 3.5.0 from sources under Ubuntu 18.04 have failed, and I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. I have tried may things, including :
export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -fPIC" export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -fPIC" export CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -fPIC" ./configure --enable-R-shlib --prefix=/usr/lib/R/3.5.0 #### Configure completes normally without errors or warnings make #### make fails, always with lines like: gcc -Wl,--export-dynamic -fopenmp -fPIC -o R.bin Rmain.o CommandLineArgs.o Rdynload.o Renviron.o RNG.o agrep.o altrep.o apply.o arithmetic.o array.o attrib.o bind.o builtin.o character.o coerce.o colors.o complex.o connections.o context.o cum.o dcf.o datetime.o debug.o deparse.o devices.o dotcode.o dounzip.o dstruct.o duplicate.o edit.o engine.o envir.o errors.o eval.o format.o gevents.o gram.o gram- ex.o graphics.o grep.o identical.o inlined.o inspect.o internet.o iosupport.o lapack.o list.o localecharset.o logic.o main.o mapply.o match.o memory.o names.o objects.o options.o paste.o platform.o plot.o plot3d.o plotmath.o print.o printarray.o printvector.o printutils.o qsort.o radixsort.o random.o raw.o registration.o relop.o rlocale.o saveload.o scan.o seq.o serialize.o sort.o source.o split.o sprintf.o startup.o subassign.o subscript.o subset.o summary.o sysutils.o times.o unique.o util.o version.o g_alab_her.o g_cntrlify.o g_fontdb.o g_her_glyph.o xxxpr.o `ls ../unix/*.o ../appl/*.o ../nmath/*.o` ../extra/tre/libtre.a -L"../../lib" -lRblas -lgfortran -lm -lquadmath -lreadline -lpcre -llzma -lbz2 -lz -lrt -ldl -lm -licuuc -licui18n /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dchdc.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dpbfa.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dpbsl.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dpoco.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dpodi.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dpofa.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dposl.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dqrdc2.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dqrdc.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dqrls.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dqrsl.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dqrutl.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dsvdc.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dtrco.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: ../appl/dtrsl.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/x86_64-linux-gnu-ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status Makefile:145: recipe for target 'R.bin' failed make[3]: *** [R.bin] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/steve/src/R/R-3.5.0/src/main' Makefile:137: recipe for target 'R' failed make[2]: *** [R] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/steve/src/R/R-3.5.0/src/main' Makefile:28: recipe for target 'R' failed make[1]: *** [R] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/steve/src/R/R-3.5.0/src' Makefile:60: recipe for target 'R' failed The same occurs with or without --enable-R-shlib My interpretation is that -fPIC is not being seen by the compilers, but the call to gcc clearly includes it. I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to get this build to succeed. Best, Steve _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian