I'm no Xpert on this, but it appears that someone forgot to put -fPIC in one of the makefiles?
That would cause the _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE linkage error... Scott On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 16:09:42 +0800 "Jacky, Lau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > > I have tried to build XFree86-4.2.1 (I got a patch in >ftp.xfree86.org), with Gcc 2.96. > > After I have done the make install, I try to start X, the following >error occurs. > > Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 4 > Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 3 > Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 4 > Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 9 > ...... > Symbol _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ from module >/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a is unresolved! > Elf_RelocateEntry() Unsupported relocation type 10 > ...... > Fatal server error : > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > What's the problem, gcc, or x or the patch, or anything else? > > My base distro is RH7.2 > >Zenith Lau >_______________________________________________ >Xpert mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert Scott Long SwiftView, Inc. http://www.swiftview.com _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
