[CentOS] Compile error

Mon Oct 10 21:22:39 UTC 2005
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez at ivazquez.net>

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.

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