[GAP Forum] Error message when compiling gap development version

[Gábor Horváth]

Hi All,

At the "LINK libgap.la" stage of the compilation, I receive the following 
error message:



*** Warning: Linking the shared library libgap.la against the
*** static library /home/ghorvath/work/gap/extern/install/zlib/lib/libz.a 
is not portable!
/usr/bin/ld: 
/home/ghorvath/work/gap/extern/install/zlib/lib/libz.a(gzlib.o): 
relocation R_X86_64_PC32 against symbol `gzrewind' can not be used when 
making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Bad value
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile.rules:361: recipe for target 'libgap.la' failed
make: *** [libgap.la] Error 1



I use debian stretch x64, and what is more puzzling is that I have another 
machine, with debian stretch x64, which doesn't produce this error. I am 
trying to compile the git development version of gap, commit 
ebe360c59300c.

And of course, after this error, several of the packages won't compile, 
they complain not finding the appropriate information about gap in the 
sysinfo.gap file.

What could cause the error?

Thanks,
Gabor

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