R_X86_64_32

[Vivek Khera]

On Aug 30, 2005, at 3:23 PM, Tommi Lätti wrote:

> I even diff'ed the config.status files from both machines when they  
> generated them during portinstall. No difference. Anyways, usually  
> this error occurs only when linking to some library that was a  
> dependancy as far as I've understood.
>

it happens any time you try to use a shared library built from some  
software which has only been tested on i386 architecture...  
basically, some lazy developer decided that to build a shared library  
they just take the existing objects and lump them together.  on  
modern architectures like amd64 and sparc, this doesn't work unless  
those objects are built with -fPIC.

basically it is a result of bad software configuration.  the easy fix  
is to just add -fPIC to your CFLAGS for such software. the correct  
fix is to redo how it builds shared libraries so that -fPIC is only  
used on those and not the static libraries too.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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