Hi

I've been trying to compile various things on my AMD64 and I have gotten this error a few times. It starts out well, but when making shared objects I get this:

/usr/bin/ld: ./testmess.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
./testmess.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I've no idea what that means. I've tried to look for an explanation for this elsewhere, but the replies seems to cryptic for a relative newbee.

I'm running Fedora Core 3, kernel 2.6.10 and recent versions of gcc and whatelse... whatever up2date keeps me up to date with.

Hope anyone can help.

gcc -c -fPIC tesjunk.c

this tells the compiler to make an object testjunk.o that we are going to use as part of a larger shared object library

namely

gcc -shared -fPIC -o libtestjunk.so testjunk1.o testjunk2.o

so then you can make

gcc -o testapp testappobject.o -L. -ltestjunk

edit: oh yea it stands for -flag:Position Independant Code