From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 00:28:50 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7E3316A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:28:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B71A843D31 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@evilpete.dyndns.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 979DF2A7EA for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:28:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96FEBE259 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:28:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i2V8S2lQ038034; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:28:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i2V8S2lI038033; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:28:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter) From: Peter Wemm To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:28:02 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <20040331074508.M42491@farside.isc.org> In-Reply-To: <20040331074508.M42491@farside.isc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200403310028.02495.peter@wemm.org> Subject: Re: mod_perl2 and libperl.a and -fPIC... X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:28:50 -0000 On Wednesday 31 March 2004 12:07 am, Peter Losher wrote: > I am trying to compile mod_perl2 as a DSO on my amd64 system, and cam > across this error.. > > -=- > /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/CORE/libperl.a(perl.o): > relocation R_X86_64_32S can not be used when making a shared object; > recompile with -fPIC > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/mach/CORE/libperl.a: could not read > symbols: Bad value > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in > /usr/ports/www/mod_perl2/work/mod_perl-1.99_12/src/modules/perl. *** > Error code 1 > -=- > > Now as I understand it perl is built w/ -fPIC (even rebuilt the port > to be sure), so is there something else at work here? Yeah, the perl5.6.1 port doesn't build a shared object, so it can't be embedded inside another shared object. However, the perl5.8 port does have shared object support enabled. Don't ask me why 5.6.1 doesn't do it though. :-) > Best Wishes - Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5