Ebner.EJ.Johannes at partner
Sep 2, 2008, 12:37 AM
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>Dan Axtell wrote:
>> I'm still trying to figure out how to build mod_perl on an
>AMD x86_64 system.
>> It's running gcc 4.1.1 on Red Hat 4.1.1-52. Perl 5.8.8 +
>Apache + mod_perl is
>> already installed, but I wanted to try and build everything
>with 5.10 because
>> I've read that the RedHat Perl binaries are sometimes very
>slow, and I want to
>> check out some of the Perl 5.10 features on a new server.
>>
>> I'm building Perl with these options:
>> Configure -de -Dprefix=/usr/local -Accflags="-fPIC"
>>
>> Perl builds, tests, and seems to run fine.
>>
>> When I make mod_perl, I get this error:
>>
>> /usr/bin/ld:
>/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux/CORE/libperl.a(gv.o):
>> relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be
>used when making a
>> shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux/CORE/libperl.a:
>could not read
>> symbols: Bad value
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>>
>> If I'm building Perl explicity with -fPIC, why does mod_perl
>think I'm not?
>
>Did you remove all previous perl build fragments that may have been
>compiled without -fPIC? That is, can you try a clean install with a
>prefix like /home/myuser/testperl, and then try to build mod_perl
>against that perl installation?
>
>I haven't tried 5.10 on x86_64 yet.
>
>>
>> I suppose I can live with 5.8.8, but there should be a way
>to build this.
>>
>> Dan
>
>
I tried mod_perl on SLES 10 AMD64 worked perfectly with Perl 5.10 - but
with the compile options for Perl you specified earlier (-fPIC). What
Fred is writing looks like the best solution to me.
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