Re: 20050707: netCDF Perl Interface - Netcdf Perl Build Error

[Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chuck,

> To: support-netcdf-perl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> From: "Chuck Peng" <cbpeng@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: netCDF Perl Interface - Netcdf Perl Build Error
> Organization: UCAR/Unidata
> Keywords: 200507071506.j67F6TKv011108

The above message contained the following:

> Institution: Nexus Geosciences
> Package Version: 1.2.3
> Operating System: SuSe Linux 9.3
> Hardware Information: AMD Athlon 64
> Inquiry: Can not pass Make. It works on 32 bit Athlon machine. Problem is on 64 bit hardware.  Compiler is gcc 3.3.5 20050117
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help
> 
> Chuck Peng
> Nexus Geosciences Inc.
> 
> 
> netcdf-perl-1.2.3/src> make
> make[1]: Entering directory `/home/cpeng/third_parties/netcdf-perl-1.2.3/src'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/home/cpeng/third_parties/netcdf-perl-1.2.3/src'
> 
> making `dynamic' in directory /home/cpeng/third_parties/netcdf-perl-1.2.3/src/perl
> 
> make[3]: Entering directory `/home/cpeng/third_parties/netcdf-perl-1.2.3/src/perl'
> make[3]: Warning: File `NetCDF.o' has modification time 2.7e+06 s in the future

Odd.  Did you do a "make distclean" before the "make"?

> rm -f blib/arch/auto/NetCDF/NetCDF.so
> LD_RUN_PATH="" cc  -shared -L/usr/local/lib64 NetCDF.o  -o blib/arch/auto/NetCDF/NetCDF.so   -L/usr/lib64 -lnetcdf
> /usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.5/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libnetcdf.a(v2i.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
> make[3]: *** [blib/arch/auto/NetCDF/NetCDF.so] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/cpeng/third_parties/netcdf-perl-1.2.3/src/perl'
> make[2]: *** [perl/dynamic] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/cpeng/third_parties/netcdf-perl-1.2.3/src'
> make[1]: *** [decision] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/cpeng/third_parties/netcdf-perl-1.2.3/src'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

It could be that the netCDF library wasn't compiled in a way that would
allow it to be linked into a sharable library.  Can you tell if the
"-fPIC" option was used to compile the netCDF library?

Regards,
Steve Emmerson