[mpich-discuss] MPICH2-1.3.1 libmpich.a: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `mpifcmb2_' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

[Sunil Thomas]

Just to follow-up on this issue; I resolved it by linking instead against
the dynamic library
libmpich.so (shared objects files). I am configuring this entirely with
cmake and it could
very well be that I am not specifying the right things in the cmake file
(but I still feel the
previous version should work, using the static libs).

Any further thoughts on this will be appreciated..

--Sunil.

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:02 PM, Sunil Thomas <sgthomas27 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    First I built mpich2-1.3.1 following the directions in install.pdf doc
> with --enable-shared
> and the built and install complete successfully but I got the following
> error when building
> my application:
>
> *relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when
> making a shared object, *
> recompile with -fPIC  (Could not read symbols: Bad value)
>
>
>    Then I built mpich2-1.3.1 with CFLAGS=-fPIC and --enable-shared and the
> build and install
> again comlpete successfully. (This is on RHEL 5). However when I try to
> build my application
> using the resulting mpicxx compilers and link to the installed mpich
> libraries (my application
> is written in C++), this time I got the following error:
>
> * relocation R_X86_64_32 against `mpifcmb2_' can not be used when making a
> shared object; *
> *recompile with -fPIC (Could not read symbols: Bad value)*
>
> Greatly appreciate any advice on a fix to the this issue. Let me know if I
> can provide more
> info.
>
> Thanks!
> --Sunil.
>
>
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