FC4 x84_64, GCC4.0 link error

[Jim Hayward]

Hi All,

Can anyone give me an good, understandable explanation of exactly what
this error means and how it might be fixed. I did a google search, I get
quite a few hits, but nothing that gives a really good explanation. If I
add -fPIC and recompile it does work around the compile problem. But I
would like to know why.

/usr/bin/ld: cap.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making
a shared object; recompile with -fPIC cap.o: could not read symbols:
Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status


Regards,
	Jim H
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