Re: [Firebird-devel] Compiling on Freebsd 8.1 - AMD64

[Damyan I. <dm...@de...>]

-=| Leonardo M. Ramé, Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:42:07PM -0700 |=-
> I'm trying to compile Firebird 2.1.3 on Freebsd 8.1 Amd64 using this  procedure, without success:
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libsupc++.a(tinfo2.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S 
> can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/lib/libsupc++.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> gmake[2]: *** [../gen/firebird/lib/libfbclient.so.2.1.3] Error 1

I think the linker complains because libsupc++.a was built without 
-fPIC and therefore is not suitable for a shared object that is 
created for dynamic linking, such as libfbclient.so.

If recompiling libsupc++ with -fPIC is not feasible, you may be 
interested in this patch[1] from the Debian package which replaces 
static linking with libsupc++.a with dynamic linking with libstdc++.

    [1] http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-firebird/2.1.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/no-static-linkage.patch;hb=HEAD