On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 17:11 -0400, Sam Drinkard wrote: > A bit off topic, but having trouble again with the 64-bit libs when > trying to compile this short fortran code to build a shared object. > Can anyone offer an explaination of what is meant by the relocation > bit, and how to fix it? I've tried the -fPIC, but apparently I either > didn't have it in the right place or it does not work. Be glad to > take this offline if somone could help me. Here's the output from the > compile.... > > Hostid: PGI=003048E02E69493B247282 > fortran routine compiled > create shared library... > /usr/bin/ld: wrf_user_fortran_util_0.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against > `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; > recompile with -fPIC > wrf_user_fortran_util_0.o: could not read symbols: Bad value > error in load, error exit It has to do with the .a or .o file you're linking against, in this case wrf_user_fortran_util_0.o. That object needs to use -fPIC when being built. -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net> http://centos.ivazquez.net/ gpg --keyserver hkp://subkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 38028b72 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20051010/05aba19e/attachment-0005.sig>