I am not certain, but this may be the same problem that I once had, and that was solved by updating to binutils-2.20. ld --version GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.20.1.20100303 Wolfram On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:34:03AM +0100, José Pedro Magalhães wrote:

Hi all,

I'm getting the same error as Alexy below in some 64bit linux system. What can I do? Adding -fPIC and also -dynamic does not seem to solve the problem. Also, this only happens with a perf build; devel1 works fine.

Thanks, Pedro

On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 05:56, braver wrote:

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An attempt to build the trunk gets me this:

/opt/portage/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.2.4/../../../../x86_64- pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: rts/dist/build/RtsStartup.dyn_o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `StgRun' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

-- I use prefix portage on a CentOS box, admittedly a non-standard setup. Its gcc is found first and it wants -fPIC... Should I just add it to CFLAGS or what?

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You've got an object file compiled with 32-bit code, hence the relocation error. fPIC won't help you much (the linker error isn't helpful.) It's a matter of sifting through the make output to find the file or files that aren't compiled in 64-bit mode. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: José Pedro Magalhães Sender: glasgow-haskell-users-bounces@haskell.org Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 11:34:03 To: GHC users Cc: braver Subject: Recompile with -fPIC (was "building a patched ghc") _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users