On Nov 13, 2010, at 7:03 PM, John R Pierce wrote: > 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 Hi John, Many thanks for the rapid reply. If I still get the error after using your fix, what would you assume is wrong? - aurf