JuliaLang/julia — comment on commit ca87935a7d50d7e63527ab2bbe408608d4fbe642
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By ViralBShah:

I have got rid of configure also now. This HAS to work. For a reason I can't figure, no output is shown on the screen. You have to check whether the library got created in arpack-ng-3.0.2 or see root/lib/libarpack.so.

-viral

On Jan 29, 2012, at 1:30 AM, JeffBezanson wrote:

> Now I get this during configure:
>
> ```
> config.status: creating PARPACK/UTIL/MPI/Makefile
> config.status: executing depfiles commands
> config.status: executing libtool commands
> /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libgfortran.a(stop.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.6.2/../../../../lib/libgfortran.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> ```
>
> This looks similar to the static libgfortran linking issue.
>
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