Re: 4.2.0 build fail

[Lawrence Bottorff]

I finally got 4.2.0 to work. I uninstalled (complete removal) the Ubuntu Octave (version 4.0...), uninstalled (complete removal) the Ubuntu libGraphicsMagick...  libraries, then reinstalled from source both GraphicsMagick (after ./configure --enable-shared) and Octave 4.2.0 (after ./configure --enable-shared) -- and it finally came up . . . and I just realized my quinoa is burning. Gotta go.

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

On Dec 26, 2016, at 3:49 PM, Lawrence Bottorff <address@hidden> wrote:

On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 2:06 PM, Ben Abbott <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Dec 26, 2016, at 10:36 AM, Lawrence Bottorff <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> This is what I get from make:
>
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libGraphicsMagick.a(magick_libGraphicsMagick_la-blob.o): relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `GetBlobInfo' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
>
> I'm building 4.2.0 on Ubuntu 16.10 64-bit.
>
> LB

You’ve already asked this question and received the competent answers. If there is something about the answers you don’t understand, please reply-all and request clarification on the specifics. If the event you didn’t receive the earlier response, I will give some advice that flies in the face of logic … check your spam filter ;-)

Ben

I saw a response on nabble, but none here. The nabble response said something about installing libGraphicsMagic from Ubuntu's repo. Didn't work. Still same error. No doubt I should not have hand-installed GraphicsMagic latest from source. I wil gladlyl recompile GraphicsMagic, but I don't know how to change configure or make file to add -fPIC. Any ideas?

The simple solution is to uninstall GraphicsMagic from /usr/local.

Ben