[Gdal-dev] Gdal compiling error

[Frank Warmerdam]

On 9/8/06, Yang, Richard <dyang at nrcan.gc.ca> wrote:
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> I tried to build gdal-1.3.2 on solaris2.8 and encountered an error:
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> ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [libgdal.la] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/data/lmn20/Emergy/gdal'
> make: *** [check-lib] Error 2
> 2257.53u 418.81s 49:32.25 90.0%
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> What "non-writable sections collect2" means? How to walk around it?

Richard,

I'm not really sure what this means.  Things to keep in mind
on Solaris are:
 o Care with 32bit vs. 64bit environment.
 o I believe -fPIC is manditory for shared libraries.

However, i'm not at all sure you are running into either of those.
All I can advise is:

 1) Try configuring --without-libtool.   In theory libtool helps work
     around platform specific problems.  But when it fails it can
     be very hard (for me at least) to figure out why.

 2) Try reducing he number of external libraries used.  For
      instance, if external postres libs are being picked up,
     consider configuring --without-pg if only to narrow down
     what may be the issue.  Often some sort of mismatched
     libraries getting linked in is an issue.

Some on else also recently mentioned configuring
--without-unix-stdio-64 which could help, though you
would presumably be limited to files up to 2GB.

Once you narrow down what change gets the build
working, we can consider how that feature can be
re-enabled if you need it.

Best regards,

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