How can I set ccshared=-fPIC while executing ./configure?

Question

I am trying to build Python 2.6 for QGIS on RHEL 5. During the making of QGIS I get the following error:

Linking CXX shared library libqgispython.so
/usr/bin/ld:         


        

Answer 1

As noted elsewhere, running configure with --enable-shared should cause -fPIC to be included in the compiler flags. However, you may still see the "could not read symbols" error if you attempt to do a parallel build using, e.g., 'make -j8'. I had this same error on RHEL 5.2 and it only went away when I removed the '-j8' from my make invocation...