Re: [Boost-build] GCC/x86_64 toolset(?) problems

From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-08-28 23:49:44

on Wed Aug 27 2008, Juergen Hunold <juergen.hunold-AT-ivembh.de> wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 August 2008 21:53:53 David Abrahams wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been trying to run the Boost 1.35.0 tests with GCC on Suse Linux
>> Enterprise Server 10/AMD64, and there are some failures that indicate we
>> got something wrong somewhere. 
>
> Wow. Thats old ;-))
>
>> /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld
>>: /zorak/sles/build/boost/bin.v2/libs/statechart/test/gcc-4.1.0/release/
>> link-static/LibTestNormalLibTuTest.o:
>>     relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when
>>     making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>>
>> I assume that there's something wrong with what Boost.Build is doing
>> here, but I'm at a loss as to how it might be fixed.
>
> Well, x86_64 gcc targets sometimes requires -fPIC even for static builds. So 
> add <cxxflags>-fPIC to your user config jam or the Jamfile for Boost.StateChart. 
> And do a full (!) recompile.

Maybe I didn't understand how you intended that I add -fPIC.  What I did
was in /etc/site-config.jam:

  using gcc : : : <cxxflags>-fPIC ;

Unfortunately, it still fails in exactly the same way.

-- 
Dave Abrahams
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