I recently got an fPIC error when compiling Geo-IP on my machine. I searched the forums and bugzilla, but didn't see anything about this error. I tried compiling the source from MaxMind and got the same error. Here is the error I received from compiling Geo-IP-1.25: Running Mkbootstrap for Geo::IP () chmod 644 IP.bs rm -f blib/arch/auto/Geo/IP/IP.so LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/local/lib64" x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -shared IP.o -o blib/arch/auto/Geo/IP/IP.so -lGeoIP /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../lib64/libGeoIP.a(GeoIP.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.4/../../../../lib64/libGeoIP.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [blib/arch/auto/Geo/IP/IP.so] Error 1 !!! ERROR: dev-perl/Geo-IP-1.25 failed. !!! Function perl-module_src_compile, Line 125, Exitcode 2 Here is my emerge --info: Portage 2.0.53 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1/vserver, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r2, 2.6.14-vs2.0.1-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-vs2.0.1-gentoo x86_64 Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 ccache version 2.3 [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ussg.iu.edu/pub/linux/gentoo ftp://mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo ftp://mirror.iawnet.sandia.gov/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j5" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 apache2 berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 crypt curl eds emboss encode expat fastcgi fortran gd gdbm geoip gif gpm imlib ipv6 jpeg libwww lzw lzw-tiff mhash mysql ncurses nls nptl pam pcre pdflib perl php png python readline sdl session sftplogging spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vhosts xattr xml2 xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
fixed in >=dev-libs/geoip-1.3.13
*** Bug 123770 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
>=dev-libs/geoip-1.3.13 compiles fine for me, but it doesn't seem to work with awstats. I read in a forum post that you need both geoip and Geo-IP for geoip to work in awstats. It's not clear to me what the actual difference is or why there are 2 packages with virtually the same name.
(In reply to comment #3) > >=dev-libs/geoip-1.3.13 compiles fine for me, but it doesn't seem to work with awstats. See Bug 103663, there's an ebuild with instructions.