Hi, While I was trying to build R 2.5.0 src on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 4) Kernel 2.6.9-42.ELsmp on an x86_64 The following errors occurred:
gcc -std=gnu99 -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 -o lapack.so Lapack.o -L../../../lib -lRlapack -L../../../lib -lRblas -lg2c -lm -lgcc_s /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/libg2c.a(s_cat.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/libg2c.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [lapack.so] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/ljiao/R-2.5.0/Build/src/modules/lapack' make[3]: *** [R] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/ljiao/R-2.5.0/Build/src/modules/lapack' make[2]: *** [R] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/ljiao/R-2.5.0/Build/src/modules' make[1]: *** [R] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ljiao/R-2.5.0/Build/src' make: *** [R] Error 1 Is this a bug of GCC? See also https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2006-0509.html What can I do to proceed? [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel