Octave ld error with packages in SuitSPARSE

[Jingjing Li]

Hi everyone,

I am trying to compile Octave-3.6.2 but the link to packages from 
SuitSPARSE always give an error like this:

ld: /myhome/appl/lib/libcholmod.a(cholmod_common.o): relocation 
R_X86_64_32S against `malloc' can not be used when making a shared 
object; recompile with -fPIC
/myhome/appl/lib/libcholmod.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

Here /myhome/ is the path to my $HOME.  As I was trying to fix it, 
similar messages happen for other packages from SuiteSPARSE: colamd, 
ccolamd, umfpack, etc.

The thing is, I have added the option -fPIC to CFLAGS, the config option 
for each package (CHOLMOD_CONFIG, UMFPACK_CONFIG, etc.), and anywhere I 
can add such an option to, in the SuiteSparse_config.mk file.  I have 
tried to make SuitSparse package several times from a clean start and 
installed to /myhome/appl, with no error or warning.  But when I tried 
to make octave, the same error message happens, some times for cholmod, 
or colamd, or umfpack, etc.

The operation system is CentOS5.5.  I use Intel compiler for both octave 
and suitesparse. Octave is configured with
./configure --prefix=/myhome/appl --with-blas="(intel blas options)" 
--with-lapack="(intel lapack options" --with-umfpack="-lumfpack 
-lSuiteSparse" --with-umfpack-includedir=/myhome/appl/include 
--with-umfpack-libdir=/myhome/appl/lib ...(the same to add include and 
lib paths for other suitesparse packages).

Any suggestions?  Thanks a lot!

Jingjing Li