On Wed, 5 Jan 2011, lhecking at users.sourceforge.net wrote: To: centos at centos.org From: lhecking at users.sourceforge.net Subject: [CentOS] Compiling thunderbird I'm following this thread here http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=23749&forum=38 to build an rpm for thunderbird 3.1.6/3.1.7 from source. While it works well on i386, compilation fails for x86_64. Any advice how to fix the spec file? This doesn't look good. rm -f libthebes.so /usr/bin/ld: gfxUserFontSet.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `ots::Process(ots::OTSStream*, unsigned char const*, unsigned long, bool)' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status HTH Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------