>> What does this mean?  The shared library is too big?  [...]
> Yes, library grew to big probably.

> This typically is either an assembler file using a too short relative
> branch style, or -fpic should be changed to -fPIC.

I checked, and it was using -fpic; I convinced it to use -fPIC instead,
and sure enough the problem went away.

Thank you very much!

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