Re: liblapack.a: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 11/02/2011 01:09 PM, Irena Johnson wrote:
> I am trying to compile octave-3.4.3 on our rhel5 server.  I am using gcc4/4.6.0
>
> Please see the config options below:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr/pppl/gcc/4.6-pkgs/octave-3.4.3 \
   ....
> --with-blas=/usr/pppl/gcc/4.6-pkgs/lapack-3.3.1/libblas.a \
> --with-lapack=/usr/pppl/gcc/4.6-pkgs/lapack-3.3.1/liblapack.a \

I think that it needs shared libraries (.so) and you are giving it the 
static libraries (.a). Do you have libblas.so and liblapack.so on your 
system? I think they are provided by the packages blas-devel and 
lapack-devel (and also atlas-sse{,2,3}-devel, so 'yum install blas-devel 
lapack-devel' should fix it for you.