On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 11:21 -0700, Steve Diggs wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> The last time I compiled and installed both netCDF and the Perl
> interface was about 5 years ago under Solaris.
>
> That machine was recently replaced with a spanking new AMD-64 dual-core
> system running RedHat EL-4.
>
> (BTW, this all works as advertised with a Xeon/Dell system under RH
> EL-3)
>
> The latest version of the netcdf library itself compiled and installed
> without incident, however, the newest version of the perl interface
> (netcdf-perl-1.2.3) wasn't as cooperative. Following the "INSTALL"
> notes as well as I could, I got the configure program to run just fine,
> but when I executed *make* , I got this:
>
> "/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libnetcdf.a(v2i.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S
> against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/local/lib/libnetcdf.a: could not read symbols: Bad value"
>
> and of course the make failed. It failed on this command:
>
> "gcc -shared NetCDF.o -o blib/arch/auto/NetCDF/NetCDF.so -
> L/usr/local/lib -lnetcdf"
>
> So I tried adding in the -fPIC (as instructed above by ld) to the
> compile line above and got a stream of errors and a worse failure.
>
> Has anyone seen this type of error before? If so, any help would be
> appreciated.
Hi Steve,
Yes, I've seen this error many times! In all likelihood, it means that
your netCDF library should have been compiled with the '-fPIC' option.
There is a netCDF package in Fedora Extras (I maintain it) that has the
"-fPIC" options set the way you want and you can grab the SRPM(s) at:
http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/SRPMS/
http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/SRPMS/netcdf-3.6.0-7.p1.fc4.src.rpm
Since Fedora is the testing grounds or "beta" for RHEL, you should have
very little difficulty building a binary RPM for your RHEL setup.
hope that helps!
Ed
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