[RDD] continued issues with rlm compilation

[philj]

I have been trying to compile an rlm for rds with the innovonics 713.  I abandoned the project a couple weeks ago, and am now revisiting.  I believe that I may have found the issue, but I don't know how to fix it.  Any input would be appreciated.  I am getting the following error when I try to compile using..

#gcc -shared -o rlm_inno713.rlm rlm_inno713.c

/usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccEAXZT8.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against 'a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

/tmp/ccEAXZT8.o could not read symbols: Bad value

collecte: ld returned 1 exit status

I did some research and found this..

3.f. Case 3: Lack of `-fPIC' flag in the software to be built

This is the most common case. It is a real bug in the build system and should be fixed in the ebuild, preferably with a patch that is sent upstream. Assuming the error message looks like this:

Code Listing 6.1: A sample error message

.libs/assert.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC .libs/assert.o: could not read symbols: Bad value

This means that the file assert.o was not compiled with the -fPIC flag, which it should. When you fix this kind of error, make sure only objects that are used in shared libraries are compiled with -fPIC.