Re: IceCat compiling errors

[Sean Artman]

Hi, this might be helpful:
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/amd64/howtos/index.xml?part=1&chap=3


On 12/28/08, E Drummond <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just tried to compile IceCat on my Lunar Linux box, and it was
> running file for quite a while until:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libX11.a(ChkIfEv.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a
> local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with
> -fPIC
>  /usr/lib/libX11.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[3]: *** [libxul.so] Error 1
>
> What is happening here? Does it want me to recompile X11 with -fPIC or
> IceCat? And what exactly does recompiling with -fPIC involve?
>
> Thanks,
> Erin
>
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