Re: [Openexr-devel] 64 bit libHalf - R_X86_64_32S _eLut and -fPIC question

[Paul Miller]

Paul Miller wrote:
> Well, this is a strange one.
>
> I'm building libHalf statically on a 32 bit kubuntu system and a 64 bit 
> system. I'm linking it in with a shared library.
>
> On the 32 bit system, everything is fine.
>
> On the 64 bit system (kubuntu 6.0.6, full upgrade), when I attempt to 
> link my shared library (again, with the 64 bit static libHalf.a), I get 
> this link error:

A couple of people (thank you) pointed me in the right direction - I 
needed to manually tell the IlmBase configure script to enable PIC.

Since fPIC is apparently *required* on x64 Linux, I was wondering why 
the configure script didn't automatically enable it for me. Is that a 
bug or a feature?


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