Re: GNUstep dynamic link problem on PowerPC

[Richard Dale]

On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, you wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, you wrote:
> > Richard Dale wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > tipitina duke 580% ./kangaroo
> > > lt-kangaroo: error in loading shared libraries: 
> > > /usr/lib/libgnustep-base.so.1: R_PPC_REL24 relocation out of range
> > > 
> > 
> > gnustep-base is compiled/linked with the -fPIC flag, which should handle 
> > any sized library (I think). Perhaps some of the other libraries you are 
> > using use -fpic instead, which can have problems with large libraries?
> Thanks, that's great - I've got something to go on now. Here is an example
> compilation command from the build of the kde libs, it does have '-fPIC'. I'll
> try building the libs without that, and ask on the kde-develop list why they
> use it.
Oops, too early in the morning and I can't read properly - I think I need tea,
not code :-). I got it the wrong way round - kdelibs should be ok with '-fPIC' 
as you say.  Trolltech's Qt lib and my own library are both built with '-fPIC'
too, so they should be ok. I can try statically linking, and see if that runs
ok.

-- Richard

KDE libs compilation example:
>  gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../../dcop -I../../libltdl
> -I../../kdecore -I../../kdeui -I../../kssl -I/usr/lib/qt-2.3.0/include
> -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/opt/kde2/include -D_REENTRANT -DICE_t -DTRANS_SERVER
> -DTRANS_CLIENT -DUNIXCONN -DANSICPP -O2 -Wp,-MD,.deps/authutil.pp -c 
> authutil.c
>  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/authutil.o