David thanks for your reply
> What version of gcc are you using? Older 2.95 versions are known > to have issues outputting R_PPC_REL24 relocs in PIC code. 2.95.4 (from -unstable) > Use 'readelf -r' to determine the various types of relocations in > a shared object file. In a properly compiled PPC .so file, you it seems that -fPIC doesn't suppress REL24 type relocations: $ make g++ -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -fPIC -DTL_PRINTDEBUG -I/home/bmidgley/cockpit/build/linuxgcc-ppc/ -I/home/bmidgley/cockpit/packages/ -I/usr/lib/sigc++/include -I/home/bmidgley/cockpit/packages/messaging/src -I/home/bmidgley/cockpit/packages/multicast/src -I/usr/lib/perl/5.6.0/CORE -I/usr/lib/gtkmm/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include -I/usr/X11R6/include -I/usr/lib/sigc++/include -Wall -g -fPIC -c /home/bmidgley/cockpit/packages/scripting/src/PerlWrapper.cpp -o PerlWrapper.o $ readelf -r PerlWrapper.o | head -20 Relocation section '.rela.text' at offset 0x62770 contains 139 entries: Offset Info Type Symbol's Value Symbol's Name Addend 00000000 0071a R_PPC_REL32 00000000 .got2 + 7fe0 00000040 06e12 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 Perl_newXS + 0 00000060 0071a R_PPC_REL32 00000000 .got2 + 7fd0 000000d0 07212 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 __t9allocator1ZPc + 0 000000e4 07312 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 __t6vector2ZPcZt9allocato + 0 000000ec 06c12 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 __throw + 0 000000fc 07412 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 _._t9allocator1ZPc + 0 00000120 07512 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 push_back__t6vector2ZPcZt + 0 00000128 07612 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 getenv + 0 00000140 07712 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000004 __t12basic_string3ZcZt18s + 0 00000160 07812 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 __apl__t12basic_string3Zc + 0 00000170 07912 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000004 c_str__Ct12basic_string3Z + 0 00000184 07512 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 push_back__t6vector2ZPcZt + 0 000001b0 07712 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000004 __t12basic_string3ZcZt18s + 0 000001e4 07a12 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 __eq__H3ZcZt18string_char + 0 00000200 07a12 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 __eq__H3ZcZt18string_char + 0 00000240 07512 R_PPC_PLTREL24 00000000 push_back__t6vector2ZPcZt + 0 $ gcc --version 2.95.4 $ dpkg -s gcc-2.95 Package: gcc-2.95 Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: devel Installed-Size: 3152 Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <debian-gcc@lists.debian.org> Source: gcc-2.95 (2.95.4.ds4-0.010703) Version: 1:2.95.4-0.010703 Provides: c-compiler Depends: gcc (>= 1:2.95.3-2), libc6 (>= 2.2.3-1), cpp-2.95 (>= 1:2.95.4), cpp-2.95 (<< 1:2.95.5), binutils (>= 2.11.90.0.1-1) Recommends: libc-dev Suggests: gcc-2.95-doc (>= 1:2.95.4), task-devel-common Conflicts: libc5-dev Description: The GNU C compiler. NOTE: This is not a final release, but taken from the CVS gcc-2_95-branch (dated 20010522). . This is the GNU C compiler, a fairly portable optimizing compiler which supports multiple languages. This package includes support for C, C++, and Objective C. $ dpkg -s gcc Package: gcc Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: devel Installed-Size: 52 Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers <debian-gcc@lists.debian.org> Source: gcc-defaults (0.11) Version: 2:2.95.4-4 Provides: c-compiler Depends: cpp (>= 2:2.95.4-4), gcc-2.95, cpp-2.95 Recommends: libc-dev Suggests: task-c-dev Description: The GNU C compiler. The default GNU C compiler for Debian GNU/Linux systems. . This is currently version 2.95.4 for this architecture (powerpc). -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brad Midgley
