"recompile with -fPIC" error when compiling

[marius311]

I'm trying to compile OpenMPI from source on a relatively old system,

$ uname -a
Linux ln02 2.6.16.60-0.103.1-smp #1 SMP Thu May 16 19:52:34 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ ldd --version
ldd (GNU libc) 2.4

$ ld --version
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.22

$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.8.1

I've tried both OpenMPI 3.0.3 and 4.0.0 (I need at least v3) and after ./configure --prefix=$HOME && make && make install I get the following error:

 /bin/mkdir -p '/home/mmillea/lib/openmpi'
 /bin/sh ../../../../libtool   --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c   mca_patcher_overwrite.la '/home/mmillea/lib/openmpi'
libtool: warning: relinking 'mca_patcher_overwrite.la'
libtool: install: (cd /home/mmillea/src/openmpi-3.0.3/opal/mca/patcher/overwrite; /bin/sh "/home/mmillea/src/openmpi-3.0.3/libtool"  --silent --tag CC --mode=relink gcc -std=gnu99 -O3 -DNDEBUG -finline-functions -fno-strict-aliasing -pthread -module -avoid-version -o mca_patcher_overwrite.la -rpath /home/mmillea/lib/openmpi patcher_overwrite_module.lo patcher_overwrite_component.lo ../../../../opal/libopen-pal.la -lrt -lm -lutil -lz )
/home/mmillea/bin/ld: /home/mmillea/lib/libdl.a(dlsym.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.text' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/mmillea/lib/libdl.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
libtool:   error: error: relink 'mca_patcher_overwrite.la' with the above command before installing it
make[3]: *** [Makefile:1789: install-mcacomponentLTLIBRARIES] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory '/wrk/mmillea/src/openmpi-3.0.3/opal/mca/patcher/overwrite'
make[2]: *** [Makefile:1973: install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory '/wrk/mmillea/src/openmpi-3.0.3/opal/mca/patcher/overwrite'
make[1]: *** [Makefile:2354: install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/wrk/mmillea/src/openmpi-3.0.3/opal'
make: *** [Makefile:1875: install-recursive] Error 1

Any ideas what might be going wrong? Many thanks.

[marius311]

I think this may be unrelated to open-mpi, somehow my libdl.a was compiled without fPIC, simply deleting that file seems to fix my problem.