Compiling Cyrus IMAPD on AMD Opteron

[John Alton Tamplin]

curtis at oushi.org wrote:

>Compiling with the -fPIC fixes the problem.  I had to do this for the
>following: imclient.c imparse.c xmalloc.c imapurl.c iptostring.c assert.c
>util.c libisieve.c prot.c
>
>Why does -fPIC fix this problem?
>  
>
Code to be used in a shared library must be position-independent, since 
it will be linked into various applications at different places in the 
various applications that link to that library.  The linker was 
complaining that a relocation type used was not suitable in a shared 
library because it could not be made to be position-independent, and 
recompiling with -fPIC made the compiler avoid that addressing mode and 
relocation type.

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