Re: R_PPC_REL24 relocation...out of range

[kisch+opensubscriber]

Hi Warren,

I've been running into the same problem like you.

Adam Fedor is right - it's most probably ffcall which has not been built using 
-fPIC.

You're right that the configure script of ffcall correctly detects that it 
should use -fPIC to have the compiler generate position-independent code.
But then it proceeds by simply not using that option for the build ;-)

The problem is this: The ffcall package is capable of building a static and and 
a shared library package. The shared library is built with -fPIC allright. The 
static library is built without -fPIC. But now gnustep-base builds its shared 
library using the STATIC ffcall lib, which doesn't have -fPIC. Therefore the 
linker complaints.

My solution: configure ffcall with CFLAGS set to include -fPIC
(CFLAGS="-whatever-other-options -fPIC" ./configure --enable-static).

Then rebuild ffcall and gnustep-base.

Hope this helps,
- Bernd Kischnick

P.S.
by the way, I'm building RPM packages for gnustep on PowerPC.
I can send them to you if you're interested.


-- Warren Nagourney wrote : 
I compiled ffcall from source and noticed that it seemed to have 
automatically used the -fPIC option (this from the stuff that appeared 
during configure). 

Adam Fedor wrote:
>
> It's likely that there is a non-gnustep library that is causing the 
> problems. Most likely it is ffcall, if you are using it.  Try 
> recompiling and installing ffcall with -fPIC to see if that works 
> (also recompile gnustep-base).



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