Kevin Ushey was right: just had to recompile the external library with -fPIC.
Good to know that I could just copy everything into src and avoid such issues. Thanks! On 13 January 2014 16:30, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@debian.org> wrote: > > On 13 January 2014 at 10:19, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > | > | Florian, > | > | On 13 January 2014 at 15:48, Florian Oswald wrote: > | | sorry for crossposting this on stackoverflow, but I'm stuck. > | > | In the future, pick either SO or here. I'd post here. > | > | | I need some help with a linker error I get during installation of an > Rcpp > | | package on a linux system where I don't have admin rights. In a > nutshell, I get > | | this error: > | | > | | relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when > making a > | | shared object; recompile with -fPIC > | | > | | Well, I did that (recompile with -fPIC) but to no avail. Please have a > look > | | here for many more details: > | | > | | http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21094740/ > | | linking-rcpp-to-interp2d-gsl-type-library > | > | As far as I can tell, Kevin Ushey's comment (made seconds ago) is spot > | on. Your problem may not be with your compile your Rcpp code but rather > with > | the way the GSL was built on that system -- you need a dynamic library. > > Looking more carefully, it seems that your use of libinterp2d may be the > issue. It is a static library, and that may be your problem. Easiest fix > is > to copy its code into your package. Higher-end solution would be to make a > shared library out of libinterp2d but you'd also have to distribute that > for > use by others. > > Dirk > > -- > Dirk Eddelbuettel | e...@debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com >
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