[Image-SIG] compiling PIL on QNX 4.25

[Steve Azevedo]

I beleive the problem under Solaris is that libImaging.a needs to contain 
position independent code.  I got around this problem by editing the 
Makefile for libImaging.a to pass the -fpic switch to gcc.

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> I'm having trouble compiling PIL on Solaris 8, myself.  I get similar
> errors. Although I'm not having trouble finding the libraries, I end up
> with several screens of linker output that ends with the following:
>
> inflate                             0xf4
> libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipDecode.o) inflateInit_
> 0xa0        libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipDecode.o) inflateEnd
> 0x494       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipDecode.o) <unknown>
> 0x178       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipEncode.o) <unknown>
> 0x17c       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipEncode.o) deflateInit2_
> 0x1a0       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipEncode.o) deflate
> 0x6a0       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipEncode.o) deflate
> 0x760       libImaging/libImaging.a(ZipEncode.o) ld: fatal: relocations
> remain against allocatable but non-writable sections collect2: ld
> returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [_imaging.so] Error 1
>
>
> ...for the life of me, I don't know what it means.
>
> System Info:
> gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release)
>
> Python 2.1.1 (#1, Aug  6 2001, 12:18:02)
> [GCC 2.95.3 20010315 (release)] on sunos5
>
> Sun Microsystems Inc.   SunOS 5.8       Generic February 2000
>
>
>
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