Dear all,
I am trying to install Valknut 0.3.9 on Ubuntu 6.10 for an AMD 64-bit system. I need to first install dclib-0.3.9 on which valknut is dependent. I can only find Valknut 0.3.7 on the repositories so I proceeded to install through source codes.

I configured dclib-0.3.9 without any error. I ensured that bzlib.h was available. On running 'make' I got the following error:

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/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libbz2.a(bzlib.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/libbz2.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [libdc.la] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/shivkvi/downloads/dclib/dclib-0.3.9/dclib'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/shivkvi/downloads/dclib/dclib-0.3.9/dclib'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/shivkvi/downloads/dclib/dclib-0.3.9'
make: *** [all] Error 2
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I went back and picked up the bzip2 executable provided on the bzip2 site for 64 bit processors but I got the same error again.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or solutions.
Best regards,
Shivkumar Iyer.

Do you know that the executable you downloaded was built with -fPIC and shared libraries? You may need to build bzip2 from source (why isn't bzip2 in the Ubuntu repositories). Remember to add -fPIC to your CFLAGS if you build bzip2 yourself.

Thank you. I have managed to successfully install dclib and valknut.

bzip2 is provided by ubuntu by default and when I got the error message at the first configure that I didn't have bzlib.h, I checked my package manager and saw that both bzip2 and libbz2 were installed. At that time the program bzip2 was working and I had used to extract the dclib and valknut packages. So I installed bzip2 using source codes. The Ubuntu repositories only have valknut-0.3.7. However, Valknut 0.3.7 is no longer compatible with DC++-0.698 and I haven't been able to download stuff from PCs running them.

The bzip2 executable for 64 bit processors didn't work for me. The -fPIC option finally worked.
Thanks again.