Use of gsl on x86_64

[José Matos]

On 21/12/2007, William John Murray <W.J.Murray at rl.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>   Hello there,
>          I am trying to use gsl on F8 with a third party programme
> 'root' (root.cern.ch) which needs to be compiled. On i686 this was fine,
> but on x86_64 I get:
>
> usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libgslcblas.a(sasum.o): relocation R_X86_64_32
> against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object;
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/lib64/libgslcblas.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
>
>   The advice from that end is tp do what gcc says - compile gsl with
> -fPIC. I wondered whether there is a reaction here - could we change the
> Fedora build to include this?
>
>     Thank you,
>                Bill

As far as I remember Patrice Dumas is working on building/adding root
for Fedora, so maybe you should contact him to help with that effort.
:-)

-- 
José Abílio