Re: [Gumstix-users] does gumstix linux require position independent code?

[Alexandre P. N. <al...@om...>]

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>I'm curious why the python modules would care?
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I think that there's an uclibc option to forcing text pages sharing. 
That would require all libraries to be pic. If I'm not mistaken, Perhaps 
that particular library was not pic and python seems to report the error 
returned by uclibc's dlopen().  I guessed looking at the flags he used 
that the code is compiled pic, but the shared library is not linked as 
PIC (though the code therein is probably PIC, dlopen() probably checks 
some ELF header to see if the entire thing was built that way or not).

I think it would be a good idea to try passing the -fPIC to the gcc link 
command and see if that helps.

Alexandre