Recompile with -fPIC option, but the option is already in the makefile

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Eduardo picture Eduardo · Dec 2, 2008 · Viewed 29.6k times · Source

I get this error when I do the make:

relocation R_X86_64_32 against `vtable for Torch::MemoryDataSet' can not be used 
when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

It says that I should recompile with the -fPIC option. I did that, adding the -fPIC option to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS, but I still get the same error. Is there any way to solve this? I have seen that this problem is related with the use of a 64-bit machine, and it is true that I am using one.

Answer

clintm picture clintm · Dec 3, 2008

I had this problem quite a while back and if I remember correctly, the fix was moving the placement of -fPIC just after gcc in the command line. Made absolutely no sense, and less so now, but as I remember, that fixed it.

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