Re: Can't luarocks install luasocket

[Hisham <hisham.hm@...>]

On Sat, Aug 6, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I can't install luasocket. Here's what happens when I try:
>
> root@mydesk:/d/at/lua/sockets# luarocks install luasocket
> /* All single C files compile just fine */
> gcc -shared -O -fpic -o socket.so.2.0.2 luasocket.o timeout.o buffer.o
> io.o auxiliar.o options.o inet.o tcp.o udp.o except.o select.o
> usocket.o
> /usr/bin/ld: luasocket.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.data' can
> not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> luasocket.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[1]: *** [socket.so.2.0.2] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory
> `/tmp/luarocks_luasocket-2.0.2-4-7249/luasocket-2.0.2/src'
> make: *** [all] Error 2

You're running LuaRocks 2.0.2. Please try the latest version, 2.0.4.1.
There were fixes related to -fPIC since.

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