[gdal-dev] python support on solaris

[Howard Butler]

On Apr 24, 2009, at 6:40 PM, Chris Garrard wrote:

> I've compiled GDAL 1.6.0 on Solaris 10, and most everything seems to  
> work fine.  However, I need Python support, but I get the following  
> error when I try to import the gdal module:
>
> >>> from osgeo import gdal
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "/opt/csw/lib/python2.5/site-packages/osgeo/gdal.py", line 7,  
> in <module>
>     import _gdal
> ImportError: ld.so.1: python: fatal: relocation error: file /opt/csw/ 
> lib/python2.5/site-packages/osgeo/_gdal.so: symbol __1c2N6FI_pv_:  
> referenced symbol not found
>
> I'd love to hear any ideas for how to solve this.

IIRC, I think relocation errors are often related to one thing or the  
other not doing position independent code (-fPIC).  I think you'll  
either need to compile Python or GDAL with -fPIC in the CPPFLAGS/ 
CFLAGS so they are both doing the same thing.

Howard