From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2011-08-11T03:37:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:38905] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5147] mkmf should not require static library when ruby is built with --enable-shared

Naohisa Goto <ngotogenome@gmail.com> wrote:
> In IRC #ruby-ja, k_tsj reported similar error occurred on Ubuntu 10.4 x86_64.
> 
>  /usr/bin/ld: ../../../libruby-static.a(class.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
>  ../../../libruby-static.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
> 
> Please revert r32902.

Yes, there needs to be a better fix than r32902; it's even more broken
than before.

I get the same error on Debian as Ubuntu without --enable-shared.
--enable-shared continues to work fine.