On 28/05/2006, at 2:26 PM, jm wrote:

> I'd seen the -FPIC thing in the few web pages I'd manage to find that 
> mentioned this error. Unfortunately this doesn;t seem to fix the 
> problem. I'm scratching my head over this one. gcc, glibc and ld have 
> all been upgraded to the latest.
>
> gcc version 3.3.5-20050130
> GNU ld version 2.16.1
>
> This is on a gentoo box. I've also got access to a fedora core 5 box 
> and the next chance I get I'll be testing there to see if it's a 
> platform related problem.


Got around to testing this on a Fedora Core 5 box today and there 
doesn't seem to be a problem. This seems to imply that the problem is 
platform specific. That gentoo (at least in the version I'm running) is 
only platform that is affected. As I've got no idea what is causing 
this I'm simple going to avoid it by not running this code on that box.

This reply is more for future reference for anyone else that may 
stubble across this problem than anything else.

Jeff.