[postgis-devel] Re: Compiling postgis with gcc3.3.2 on Solaris 7 - use of -fPIC C++ compiler option

[strk]

I've added -fPIC in the Makefile, as you suggested.
I don't think that will hurt.
--strk;

On Tue, May 04, 2004 at 05:35:43PM +0200, Havard Tveite wrote:
> For your information:
> 
> When running make, there were problems generating the shared
> library (libpostgis.so.0.8). GCC failed with something like:
> lots of lines of errors, and finally
> "ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections"
> 
> I found out that if I included -fPIC for C++ in the Makefile, as
> follows:
> "override CXXFLAGS += -fPIC"
> everything compiled fine. Without this option, the compile would
> succeed when I replaced the "-shared" option with the "-G" option.
> In both cases, the resulting libraries seemed to be OK, as my UMN
> Mapserver application was able to get data from PostGreSQL/PostGIS.
> 
> I am on Solaris 7, and use the Solaris /usr/ccs/bin utils.
> My version of GCC is 3.3.2.
> 
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> Håvard Tveite
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