[Vxl-users] can't compile vxl

[Tucker, D. <tu...@ly...>]

I have tried version 1.14 and 1.17 and both fail with similar error just 
at different places.  I'm trying to compile on centos 6.6 (64bit).

gcc -v:
gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11) (GCC)

g++ -v:
gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11) (GCC)

I unzipped the zip file.  Created a bin directory as noted in the 
instructions at the same level as unzipped source.  cd to bin.  Ran: 
cmake -i ../vxl-1.14.0

Then ran:
make

This last run it got to 78% and the error is here:

[ 78%] Built target bbgm_pro
[ 78%] Building CXX object 
contrib/brl/bseg/bbgm_batch/CMakeFiles/bbgm_batch.dir/reg_bbgm.o
Linking CXX shared module ../../../../lib/bbgm_batch.so
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.a(intobject.o): relocation 
R_X86_64_32S against `PyInt_Type' can not be used when making a shared 
object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[2]: *** [lib/bbgm_batch.so] Error 1
make[1]: *** [contrib/brl/bseg/bbgm_batch/CMakeFiles/bbgm_batch.dir/all] 
Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

I tried exporting CFLAGS=-fPIC and then running make clean and then make 
again but got the same error.  Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.


-- 
Sincerely,

Doug Tucker