ld unpredictable lookup failure building shared library

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"James K. Lowden" <jklowden@schemamania.org> writes:

> I'm attempting to build clang on x86_64.  ld fails to look up a symbol
> from std::string, recommending -fPIC, but file(1) reports the object
> file is relocatable.

Relocatable is not the same as -fPIC Relocatable just means relocatable
at link tie.  The -fPIC option constructs an object file that is
relocatable at runtime.  Have you tried actually using the -fPIC option
when compiling the file?

Ian