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From: Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 15:03:20 -0000 (UTC)
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 12:20:35 +0000
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wibbled:
>On 03/03/2025 10:44, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>> On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 08:31:16 +0000
>> Really? So if a compiler gives an error thats not a C problem? Go ask a
>> group for the specific compiler?
>
>The errors reported by the OP were like this:
>
>ld: error: relocation R_X86_64_32 cannot be used against symbol 
>'_PyRuntime'; recompile with -fPIC
>
>'ld' is a program that can be used to link programs in any language.
>
>The problem appears to be do with generating position independent code 
>since these days linkers like to generate programs that can loaded at an 
>arbitrary address in high memory.
>
>I can't see anything to do with C here, other than the source in 
>question may have been written in C.

Yes, thats kind of the point. You wouldn't get these errors if it was written
in Java or C#.

>I expect however you'd be OK with this forum being full of everyday 
>development issues associated with a million different applications, but 
>which just happen to be written in C, or which are partly in C.

[snip]

>On usenet? That is pretty much dead.

Not dead but certainly not buzzing yet I presume thats how you like it given
you don't want any "everyday development issues" relating to C mentioned here.

Or are you another one who thinks usenet should be for the exclusive discussion
of high brow issues only of interest to you?