Re: GNUstep 64Bit on CentOS or Solaris

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 23 May 2014, at 18:44, Andreas Höschler <ahoesch@smartsoft.de> wrote:

> 
> Linking library libgnustep-base ...
> /usr/bin/ld: obj/libgnustep-base.obj/GSString.m.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 
> against `GSPrivateHash' can not be used when making a shared object; 
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> gmake[5]: *** [obj/libgnustep-base.so.1.24.6] Error 1
> 
> OK, let's see
> 
>       make clean
>       export CC="gcc -m64 -fPIC"
>       make
> 
> No avail!?
> 
> Compiling file GSFFIInvocation.m ...
> Linking library libgnustep-base ...
> /usr/bin/ld: obj/libgnustep-base.obj/GSString.m.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 
> against `GSPrivateHash' can not be used when making a shared object; 
> recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> 
> Any idea?


I've seen that reported before (I forget by whom).  It's apparently a 
compiler/linker bug on some old redhat/CentOS systems (not a problen on 
redhat/centos 6).
The best fix would be to upgrade the operating system (to get compiler/linker 
without the bug), but I believe a workaround is to copy the GSPrivateHash code 
from GSPrivateHash.m directly into GSString.m
eg change the function declaraction ot be static and #include GSString.m into 
the places where it's used/