Relocation R_X86_64_32S against '_Py_NotImplementedStruct' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

Question

I\'m trying to install the dlib Python library. On some systems (macOS, stock Ubuntu 14.04) pip install dlib works fine, but in the Ubuntu 14.x tha

Answer 1

As an FYI, my particular case was resolved by renaming '/usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.a' to '/usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.a.moved'. According to 'yum whatprovides /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.a' output, this was not installed as a part of any packages installed via yum. Moving this out of the way in this case, solved my issue.

Here was my original error message:

  /usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.a(abstract.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `_Py_NotImplementedStruct' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

/usr/local/lib/libpython2.7.a: error adding symbols: Bad value collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Given that none of my installed packages accounted for the .a lib, moving it aside was an option for me.