Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
>
> The problem is that perl itself needs to be compiled with -fPIC. Blame
> it on faulty Configurey. Here's the patch that Fedora uses.
>
> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/perl/perl-5.8.1-fpic.patch?view=markup
>
>
> I don't know enough about PIC, but maybe this isn't a problem on x86
> since I haven't seen it reported here before. CLFS guys? What do you
> think about this? I don't know what to make of the 64 bit issues.
>
I usually configure perl with "-Duseshrplib" which causes perl to build
libperl.so. And since libperl.so is built with -fPIC the static libs are
also built with -fPIC. And yea, "perl sucks hard" sounds about right. I
found this error compiling xchat when I first got my x86_64 system.
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