Bug 40829 - /usr/bin/ld: OpenDis.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol _XInitDisplayLock_fn
Summary: /usr/bin/ld: OpenDis.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol _XInitDispla...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Raw Hide
Classification: Retired
Component: binutils
Version: 1.0
Hardware: ia64
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-05-16 04:37 UTC by Elliot Lee
Modified: 2007-03-27 03:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-05-21 16:04:07 UTC
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Description Elliot Lee 2001-05-16 04:37:52 UTC 
[root@boris Python-2.1]# gcc -shared build/temp.linux-ia64-2.1/_tkinter.o
build/temp.linux-ia64-2.1/tkappinit.o -L/usr/X11R6/lib
-L/usr/local/lib -ltk8.3 -ltcl8.3 -lX11 -o build/lib.linux-ia64-2.1/_tkinter.so
/usr/bin/ld: OpenDis.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol
_XInitDisplayLock_fn
/usr/bin/ld: OpenDis.o: @gprel relocation against dynamic symbol
_XFreeDisplayLock_fn
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

[root@boris Python-2.1]# rpm -q gcc binutils
gcc-2.96-85
binutils-2.10.91.0.2-3
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2001-05-16 06:48:01 UTC 
Where are you linking in _XInitDisplayLock_fn from? Is it compiled with
-fPIC?

On ia64 you can't (generally) link non-fPIC code into a shared object.
Comment 2 Jakub Jelinek 2001-09-06 17:14:59 UTC 
Assuming this was what Bill described...
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