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[Anders Logg <logg@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 05:38:48PM +0200, Ilmar Wilbers wrote:
> Turns out I did fix the boost problem, not sure how, as I tried several 
> things. But now there is another error, I just assumed it was boost 
> everytime the buildbot failed.
> 
> The problem I am having now is with symbols (this is 64-bit):
> mpic++ -o dolfin/libdolfin.so -shared dolfin/common/TimeDependent.os 
> dolfin/common/Variable.os dolfin/common/timing.os dolfin/common/utils.os
> ...
> lot more lines
> ...
> dolfin/quadrature/RadauQuadrature.os 
> -L/scratch/buildbot/local/scotch_5.0/bin -L/usr/lib/atlas -lxml2 
> -lscotch -lscotcherr -lblas -lumfpack -lamd
> /usr/bin/ld: 
> /scratch/buildbot/local/scotch_5.0/bin/libscotch.a(library_graph.o): 
> relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when 
> making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /scratch/buildbot/local/scotch_5.0/bin/libscotch.a: could not read 
> symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> scons: *** [dolfin/libdolfin.so] Error 1
> scons: building terminated because of errors.
> 
> Fixed this by recompiling scotch, adding fPIC. None of the default 
> makefiles had this included.
> 
> Anyway, dolfin now compiles successfully on the 64-bit machine used with 
> the buildbot.
> 
> ilmar

Nice that you fixed it. I remember now I had the same problem myself
with SCOTCH on my 64-bit machine. SCOTCH would also need a new build
system... :-)

-- 
Anders