Re: Installation of GNUstep Base failed on Fedora 8 (x86_64)

[Adam Fedor]

It appears that gnustep-base is being linked against a library that  
was not compiled with the -fPIC flag (which is required on 64bit  
systems). It's probably not libbfd (even though that's the one in the  
error message).  How did you get and compile ffcall? If you did that  
yourself, it might not have been compiled with -fPIC.  Try  
recompiling with:

./configure --enable-shared --disable-static      OR    ./configure -- 
with-pic
make
make install

I'd also suspect any other library you compiled yourself rather than  
from the normal Fedora packages (maybe you should even suspect  
those :-(  ).