Re: Failure on SuSE 11 (64 bit) on a Core2Duo

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 2 Oct 2008, at 15:45, Gregory Weston wrote:

> <logs.tar.gz>

> Linking library libgnustep-base ...
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/ 
> bin/ld: /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../lib64/ 
> libbfd.a(format.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol'  
> can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.3/../../../../lib64/libbfd.a:  
> could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

This means that the libbfd on your system was badly built so that it  
cant be linked into a shared library.
Your options are either to get/build libbfd complied with -fPIC as the  
error message suggests, or to configure the base library with -- 
disable-bfd to that the library builds without using libbfd.

If you don't use libbfd, the base library will be unable to display  
the names of methods/functions in a stacktrace after an exception.   
Probably not a big issue for you.