[CentOS] make fails with "recompile with -fPIC"

[John R Pierce]

On 11/13/10 7:00 PM, aurfalien at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to get monodevelop installed on Centos 5.5
>
> In order to do so, I must install several packages, all of which give
> me the following error when doing a make;
>
> /usr/bin/ld: .libs/image.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against
> `gdip_getcodecinfo_gif' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
>
> How and where do I add this value of -fPIC?
>
> Better yet, has any one done this before?
>
> Keep in mind this is diff then mono-devel.
>
> Thanks in advance,

the ./configure script should have taken care of that, at least assuming 
that project has one.

otherwise, um...

     LDFLAGS=-fPIC  ./configure && make clean && make