I had this problem with both gcc & intel compilers with selinux enabled.
Now I don't see it anymore. Its strange. [well there were some selinux-policy updates on my Fedora8 box - since I made these changes..] Yeah - if chcon is not necessary - we shouldn't use it. I'll remove my changes for now and see if these problems resurface.. Satish On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Lisandro Dalcin wrote: > The very funny error below: > > libpetsc.so: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied > > should NEVER occur if source code is correctly built (using -fPIC or > equivalent) and good programming practices are followed. > > Can someone (Satish?) comment the specific scenario where this issue > arised? I believe it would be better not to depend on 'chcon' to get > things workig, but make sure all source code is compiled and written > as it should be. However, I believe this can still cause problems when > building a sharedlib PETSc with a staticlib pre-built external > package. > > > >
