Re: [TCLCORE] Build failure on RedHat x86_64

[Brian G. <bgr...@mo...>]

Brian Griffin wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2007, at 3:22 PM, Andreas Kupries wrote:
>
>>
>>> Brian Griffin wrote:
>>>> I'm getting a build failure building the current HEAD:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/bin/ld: tclCompile.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against
>>>> `TclSetCmdNameObj' can not be used when making a shared object;
>>>> recompile with -fPIC
>>>> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
>>>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>>>
>>>> I'm building on: Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4 (Nahant 
>>>> Update 4)
>>>> Linux modport 2.6.9-42.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed Jul 12 23:32:02 EDT 2006 
>>>> x86_64
>>>> x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> Configuring as: ./configure
>>>> --prefix=/s/modport/bgriffin/tcl8.5/usr/local --enable-64bit
>>>> --enable-shared --enable-threads
>>>>
>>>> My internets research seems to indicate that this is a gcc bug, but I
>>>> cannot figure out how to "fix" the problem.  Anybody familiar with 
>>>> this?
>>
>> If you are in a real hurry you can hack around the problem by removing
>> MODULE_SCOPE from the declaration of TclSetCmdNameObj in
>> tclCompile.h. That is definitely a hack.
>
> Thanks Andreas.  All I'm trying to do right now is get a build with 
> Xft support.  This machine has Xft, but for some reason, doing a 
> 32-bit build doesn't work as the Xft configuration fails.  I was 
> hoping the 64-bit build would work.  I'll see and let you know.
>
> -Brian

That worked!  Thanks.  Also got Xft to work.

-Brian

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