What does .rodata and -fPIC mean when compiling OpenSSL?

Question

I am trying to compile openssl but encountering an error. The CFLAGS in use are:

-O2 -fPIC -fno-strict-overflow

Can someone explain to me p

Answer 1

try tar -xf openssl-xxx.tar.gz instead of tar -zxvf openssl-xxx.tar.gz

And I don't known why it works for me!