Hello,
In building the experimental ParaView package, http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/5279 , on a x86_64 Fedora 9 machine with the corresponding binary distribution of Sage 3.2.3, I got this error: /usr/bin/ld: /home/qed777/apps/sage/sage-3.2.3-Fedora_release_9-x86_64-Linux/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a(abstract.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /home/qed777/apps/sage/sage-3.2.3-Fedora_release_9-x86_64-Linux/local/lib/python2.5/config/libpython2.5.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[2]: *** [bin/libvtkPVPythonInterpretor.so] Error 1 make[1]: *** [Utilities/VTKPythonWrapping/Executable/CMakeFiles/vtkPVPythonInterpretor.dir/all] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 Error building ParaView . Subsequent attempts end with the same error but occasionally when linking one of ParaView's other Python-related shared libraries. (The latter behavior may stem from "make -j 2", but I'm not sure.) This seems to be an example of a known AMD64 quirk: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-bugs-list/2006-October/035809.html . Is this happening because the Sage distribution includes libpython2.5.a but not lipython2.5.so? Or is it because some flags, such as "-fPIC," were [intentionally] omitted when building the static library? (If it matters, I've already added "-fPIC" to the Paraview build flags.) Either way, can/should I reconfigure the build to link to the system's (i.e., not Sage's) Python library? Also, although I haven't built the experimental VTK spkg, this seems to suggest I'd have a similar problem with it. I've previously built the same versions of VTK and ParaView outside of Sage without incident. Interestingly, Kitware's binary installation of ParaView includes both libpython2.5.a and libpython2.5-pic.a, as well as a broken link to a missing libpython2.5.so, but it runs fine. Thanks! Sincerely, Pat LeSmithe --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
