[PYTHON-CRYPTO] Problems building M2Crypto on CentOS running x86_64

[Bill]

Thanks for the quick reply, I am really stumped.  I see Fedora 11 has an 
m2crypto 64 bit build, so I know it can be done, but I haven't been able.

Here is some more exact version info and what I have done to build:

OpenSSL 0.9.8j, M2Crypto 0.19.1, Python 2.5.2, CentOS 5.3

The build command I am using is, and which is failing is:

python2.5 setup.py build build_ext --openssl=/usr/local/ssl

The error is near the end of the build (the link) and is:

gcc -pthread -shared build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.5/SWIG/_m2crypto_wrap.o 
-L/usr/local/ssl/lib -lssl -lcrypto -o 
build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.5/M2Crypto/__m2crypto.so
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/ssl/lib/libcrypto.a(x86_64cpuid.o): relocation 
R_X86_64_PC32 against `OPENSSL_cpuid_setup' can not be used when making a 
shared object; recompile with -fPIC

I tried running the fedora script, but I don't have an architecture config 
file for openssl, just opensslconfig.h.  I have build on 32 bit without 
problem without the script and using the script and the config I have.

If you have some idea of what the issue is I'd really appreciate it since I am 
rapidly running out of options.

/bill


On Thursday 10 December 2009 01:58, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> Bill wrote:
> > I am unable to build M2Crypto 0.19 or 0.20 on CentOS 5 running x86_64.  I
> > have not problems building running the same system in 32 bit, but 64
> > fails.  The error suggest recompiling with the -fPIC option, but this has
> > me baffled.
> >
> > Has anyone managed to build it in 64 bit and if so could you reveal the
> > secret (BTW, I tried Ubuntu 8.05 and64 with the same results).
>
> I personally build without problems on Ubuntu 8.04 32 and 64 bit, and
> Redhat has provided Tinderbox build slaves that also regularly build 64
> bit versions on RH 5.x
>
> Are you using the the fedora_setup.sh script? Are you sure your OpenSSL
> version is supported (note that openssl 1.0 series is not yet supported
> although there is a nearly complete patch)?