libbat_la-gdk_utils.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `MT_global_exit' can not be used when making a shared object

[monetdb-team]

Date: 2015-02-15 22:07:44 +0100
From: blenoir
To: SQL devs <>
Version: 11.19.9 (Oct2014-SP2)

Last updated: 2015-05-07 12:37:31 +0200

Comment 20659

Date: 2015-02-15 22:07:44 +0100
From: blenoir

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/7.1.2 Safari/537.85.11
Build Identifier:

Compilation of MonetDB-11.19.9 generates error in 'make' on Oracle Linux (2.6.18-371.11.1.0.1.el5 - x86_64).

/usr/bin/ld: .libs/libbat_la-gdk_utils.o: relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against `MT_global_exit' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/MonetDB --enable-jdbc --enable-rintegration

Actual Results:

Compilation fails.

Comment 20660

Date: 2015-02-15 22:11:21 +0100
From: blenoir

Created attachment 320
output from running configure

Attached file: configOutput.txt (text/plain, 24629 bytes)
Description: output from running configure

Comment 20661

Date: 2015-02-15 22:15:02 +0100
From: blenoir

Created attachment 321
config.log from running configure

Attached file: config.log (text/plain, 323850 bytes)
Description: config.log from running configure

Comment 20662

Date: 2015-02-16 10:17:20 +0100
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset d424dd783e48 made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see http//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=d424dd783e48

Changeset description:

Don't declare a function both as "hidden" and as "extern".
This hopefully fixes bug #3672.

Comment 20664

Date: 2015-02-16 10:45:13 +0100
From: blenoir

This compiles.

Thanks!