problems with algcmp.o when building open-fvs on 12.04

C de-Avillez hggdh2 at ubuntu.com
Fri Jun 29 21:44:18 UTC 2012


On Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:49:08 -0700
Jason Paul Joines <jason at joines.org> wrote:

>     I'm using Kubuntu 12.04 on a Core i7 system and trying to build
> open-fvs.  It fails with the error:

What sources did you use? Can you give me a link to them? Is there a
containing package in Ubuntu?

> 
> /usr/bin/ld: algcmp.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.data' can not
> be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> algcmp.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
>     I then tried with an Ubuntu 10.04.4 system which is a Xen guest
> and reports the CPU as Xeon.  The build was successful.  The open-fvs
> developers don't have access to an Ubuntu system.  Any ideas as to why
> ld would have a problem on the 12.04 system but not on the 10.04.4
> system?


Well, the whole build tools (gcc, ld, etc) changed. But, so far, it
sounds like you have a mix of shared and static code.

Cheers,

..C..
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