[dpdk-dev] Problem with QEMU

[Jyotiswarup Raiturkar]

You need to compile DPDK with -fPIC option..

-Jyoti


On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Romulo Rosa <romuloros at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to compile QEMU on Ubuntu 12:04 and'm having the following
> problem:
>
> LINK  x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64
> /usr/bin/ld:
>
> /home/xerifao/ovs_dpdk/dpdk-1.5.1r1/x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc/lib/librte_eal.a(eal.o):
> relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making
> a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>
> /home/xerifao/ovs_dpdk/dpdk-1.5.1r1/x86_64-default-linuxapp-gcc/lib/librte_eal.a:
> could not read symbols: Bad value
>
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>
>
> The fPIC flag is setted on my Makefile:
>
> pixman/Makefile: $(SRC_PATH)/pixman/configure
>          (cd pixman; CFLAGS="$(CFLAGS) -fPIC $(extra_cflags)
> $(extra_ldflags)" $(SRC_PATH)/pixman/configure $(AUTOCONF_HOST)
> --disable-gtk --disable-shared --enable-static)
>
>
> Anyone know how to help me?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Rômulo Rosa Furtado
>