Hi All, I am trying to statically link a shared library I am developing with the Boost Regex library. I get the following error: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libboost_regex.a(instances.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `boost::object_cache<boost::re_detail::cpp_regex_traits_base<char>, boost::re_detail::cpp_regex_traits_implementation<char>
::do_get(boost::re_detail::cpp_regex_traits_base<char> const&, unsigned long)::s_data' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
I have run across this once before, and although I am not really clear why, it appears that on my AMD64 platform, if I try to link a static library into a shared library, that static library needs to be compiled with -fPIC (this requirement does not exist for normal x86 platforms). My question is: is there an already available option that I can add when compiling the Boost libraries to enable this setting? I am not at all familiar with the BJam build system. Thanks for any assistance! Best, Scott