On 12/11/2009, at 14:39, Peter Skands wrote:
> I'm trying to install cernlib-2005 on Snow Leopard (10.6). Currently,
>   sudo fink install cernlib-2005
> fails since cernlib-2005 depends on gcc44, which in turn fails to  
> compile on my
> system. The installation of gcc44 gets quite far, but then fails  
> somewhere in
> java, with the message (see below for full output):
>
> ld: absolute addressing (perhaps -mdynamic-no-pic) used in  
> ___gmpn_add_n from
> /usr/local/lib/libgmp.a(add_n.o) not allowed in slidable image. Use
> '-read_only_relocs suppress' to enable text relocs
>
>  Q1: is gcc44 supposed to work without problems on 10.6 (i.e., is my
> /usr/local/lib/libgmp.a the culprit)?

Yup. See FAQ entry Q6.8:
http://www.finkproject.org/faq/comp-general.php#usr-local-libs

>  Q2: since I really only need cernlib, is it possible to get an  
> alternative
> version of cernlib-2005 which only requires the standard C compiler  
> you get with
> XCode (4.2) ?

cernlib depends on gcc44 not because of the C compiler but because of  
the Fortran compiler (Xcode doesn't ship one). Most, if not all of our  
packages that depend on gcc44 do so because of gfortran.


Cheers,

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