[Bioperl-l] error during installation

[Fields, Christopher J]

On Jun 16, 2012, at 3:50 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Du, Peng <du at ibio.jp> wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> 
>> I am a newbie, I encountered a problem while installing bioperl-ext.
>> The error message is :
>> 
>> 
>> /usr/bin/ld: libs/libsw.a(aln.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against
>> `.rodata.str1.8' can not be used when making a shared object;
>> recompile with -fPIC
>> libs/libsw.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> 
>> I googled some solutions, but all of them are confusing, could you
>> tell me where exactly should I add the -fPIC? In the makefile under
>> the bioperl-ext-1.4 directory?  I tried to add this to the CCCDLFLAGS,
>> CCDLFLAGS, LDDLFLAGS and LDFLAGS in that file. But it still doesn't
>> work.
>> f
>> Could you tell me what to do or where could I find the answer?
>> 
>> Thank you very much.
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Peng
> 
> You should not install it in the first place. BioPerl-ext has been
> partly merged into the main Bioperl distribution, and partly spun off
> into its own dists (Bio::Tools::HMM, not released yet AFAIK). You
> should just install the former, or help release the latter.
> 
> Leon


For all intents and purposes I would consider all parts (past and present) of bioperl-ext deprecated, unless we can find someone willing to take them on.  And, with that in mind, frankly I would be much more amenable to supporting XS (or similar) interfaces to common bioinformatics libraries (Bio::DB::Sam as an example) than ones specifically designed with bioperl in mind.  The latter (bioperl-ext) have significantly bit-rotted to the point I'm not sure whether they would be worth keeping around.

chris