Well, that didn't do it, but I found -fpic in the makefile, and changed it to -fPIC and am trying again.


Brad

> >Trying to make tcl/tk out of the package system was going well until here:
> >ld: Global Offset Table overflow (use `-fPIC')
> >ld: tkCanvPs.o: GOT overflow for relocation at 0x8c0
> >Adding -fPIC to the ld options produced invalid command option '-fPIC'
> 
> you need to add -fPIC to the CFLAGS fed to gcc (and - groan - recompile all the .o).  i'm surprised ./configure --enable-shared didn't do that.
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