Re: Gnustep installation problem

[Adam Fedor]

Several other people have had this problem with 64-bit systems.  My  
advice before was to make sure the library (libobjc in this case) was  
compiled with -fPIC (you might need to get the source and recompile  
it, in this case you could get the gnustep-objc from ftp.gnustep.org/ 
pub/gnustep/libs). There might already be a 64bit version of libobjc  
(or gcc?) in another location (/usr/lib64, for instance).

No one has ever told me if this has worked though.

You might also be interested in compiling a 32 bit version of GNUstep:

http://mediawiki.gnustep.org/index.php/ 
Installation_of_32bit_GNUstep_on_64bit_Linux


On Oct 4, 2007, at 2:36 PM, Qidong Zhang wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install Gnustep on our 64-bit Linux machine using  
> "Red Hat Enterprise WS version 4". We have the following error  
> messages:
>
>  Linking library libgnustep-base ...
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/libobjc.a 
> ( archive.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can  
> not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/3.4.6/libobjc.a: could not read  
> symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> gmake[2]: *** [obj/libgnustep-base.so.1.14.0] Error 1
> gmake[1]: *** [libgnustep-base.all.library.variables] Error 2
> gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/home/qidong/gnustep-startup-0.18.2/ 
> build/gnustep-base-1.14.0/Source'
> gmake: *** [internal-all] Error 2
> gmake[2]: *** [obj/libgnustep-base.so.1.14.0] Error 1
> gmake[1]: *** [libgnustep-base.all.library.variables] Error 2
> gmake: *** [internal-all] Error 2
>
> The log file is also attached. Thank you.
>
> Best,
> Qidong Zhang, Ph.D.
> Department of Pharmacology
> UMDNJ
> 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway NJ
> <logs.tar.gz>
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