Hi,


I have package netcdf-3.6.0-4 installed on my x86_64 system.

I'm trying to build a test.so shared object with:

> gcc -fPIC -c test.c -o test.o
> gcc -shared -o test.so test.o /usr/lib64/libnetcdf.a
/usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.0.2/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libnetcdf.a(error.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib64/libnetcdf.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

It looks like /usr/lib64/libnetcdf.a has not been compiled
with -fPIC option.

> uname -a
Linux gladstone 2.6.13-15.7-smp #1 SMP Tue Nov 29 14:32:29 UTC 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)
> ld --version
GNU ld version 2.16.91.0.2 20050720 (SuSE Linux)

My test.c file contains:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <netcdf.h>
                                                                                                                                            
void test(const int *ncerr, const int *len, char *errortext[])
{
    strncpy(errortext[0], nc_strerror(*ncerr), *len);
}


H.