Dimitry Andric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > marius wrote: > > I'm trying to build a port dependant on bzip2, and the build fails. > > I'm running the October 10 snapshot with -current source tree. Any > > suggestions? > ... > > cc -shared -fpic -o libbz2.so.10.3 blocksort.so huffman.so crctable.so > > randtable.so compress.so decompress.so bzlib.so > > compress.so(.text+0x5c20): In function `sendMTFValues': > > : relocation truncated to fit: GPREL16 .sdata > ... > > Probably introduced by gcc switching to 3.x on alpha? You might want to > try compiling with -fPIC instead of -fpic.
As things are now, this is the correct way of fixing ports on alpha suffering from relocation problems.
