FreeTDS Development Group

[christos AT zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)]

On May 25,  4:21pm, vaerge AT gmail.com (Anders) wrote:
-- Subject: [freetds] cannot compile with openssl

| Hi,
| 
| I have two machines, same hardware, same OS (Debian Lenny) - but they
| do not behave the same, it seems.
| 
| I want to compile freetds with OpenSSL, but whatever I do, i cannot
| get it to compile without error. These are the 'last words' it sends
| to me when running 'make':
| 
|  gcc -shared  .libs/ct.o .libs/cs.o .libs/blk.o .libs/ctutil.o
| -Wl,--whole-archive ../tds/.libs/libtds.a
| ../replacements/.libs/libreplacements.a -Wl,--no-whole-archive
| -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto -lrt  -pthread
| -Wl,-Bsymbolic -Wl,-soname -Wl,libct.so.4 -Wl,-version-script
| -Wl,.libs/libct.ver -o .libs/libct.so.4.0.0
| /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(x86_64-gcc.o): relocation
| R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a
| shared object; recompile with -fPIC
| /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
| collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
| make[3]: *** [libct.la] Error 1
| make[3]: Leaving directory `/root/soft/freetds-0.82/src/ctlib'
| make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/soft/freetds-0.82/src/ctlib'
| make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/soft/freetds-0.82/src'
| make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
| 
| Anyone that has an idea what this is about?

You need to have /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.so around. You cannot link
a non-pic library into a shared object. Whoever installed openssl locally
in your system must have not installed the shared library part.

christos