Re: [gtk-list] Re: Problem compiling GTK/Perl 0.2.04 on solaris (UPDATE)

[Mohamed Hendawi <yohamed yahoo com>]

Thanks to everyone who responded to this (Kenneth Albanowski, David
Monniaux).  I did successfully compile GTK/Perl 0.3 actually on
Solaris 2.51 with
perl 5.004_04.  I had to recompile Perl with the
-fPIC option.  Once I did that, the Makefile generated for GTK/Perl
automatically contained -fPIC (without any hacking) and everything
worked fine. 

I'd like to post this on a newsgroup as well so other
people can find it with DejaNews or whatever.  What
is the proper newsgroup for GTK stuff?  I've been using
comp.os.linux.x but that doesn't seem quite right.

Thanks again

-Moe 

---Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Mohamed Hendawi wrote:
> 
> > I cannot compile GTK/Perl 0.2.04 on Solaris 2.51 with perl
5.004_04.  I get
> > the following
> > error:
> > 
> > ld: fatal: too many symbols require "small" PIC references:
> >     have 4543, maximum 2048 -- recompile some modules -K PIC.
> > 
> > Any idea what this could mean?  I have tried this with all
permutations of
> > GTK/Perl 0.2.04 and 0.3 and GTK 1.0.5 and 1.1.1.
> > 
> > One thing I find suspicious is the fact that I am using gcc as the
compiler
> > and /usr/ccs/bin/ld to link.  That seems fishy.  Shouldn't gcc be
using it's
> > own linker?  It's possible that my system has been configured
incorrectly.
> > 
> > One additional note:  I tried hacking the CCFLAGS in the Makefile
to include
> > "-fpic".  I still get the same problem though.
> 
> If I remember right, you might have better luck if you use -fPIC,
instead
> of -fpic. But you might need to make this change in Perl, as well.
> Unfortunately, Gtk/Perl has so many exported symbols that it is
> overflowing the (somewhat) limited -fpic symbol space. 
> 
> -- 
> Kenneth Albanowski (kjahds@kjahds.com, CIS: 70705,126)
> 
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