Description of problem: When trying to link to the netcdf library on x86_64, I get: /usr/bin/ld: ncmex.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC Please recompile with -fPIC. I already had to do this with my hdf package. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): netcdf-devel-3.6.0-6.p1.fc4 How reproducible: everytime
Hi Orion, are you certain that you've encountered a bug in netCDF? The "ncmex.o" file that you list is not included in netCDF -- its usually part of an add-on netCDF-for-MatLAB toolbox. And if you look in the netcdf.spec file you'll see that I am indeed using CPPFLAGS="-fPIC" so the vast majority of the library (which is in C) does get compiled with that flag. Or, do I also need to pass "-fPIC" for the bits compiled with gfortran (or g77) as well? If so, I'll try to see how to do that...
Gah, so sorry. I needed to compile my object -fPIC. Sorry!
No worries! And I don't think anyone is using the F90 parts of the netCDF static library to build any shared libs but, just to be safe, I've added "-fPIC" for them as well and checked that into CVS. They're building right now so a new version for FC4+ will be out soon-ish.