failed to build shared libraries with boost 1.48 - c++

Question

I am trying to build boost 1.48 on an amd64 machine however shared libraries are not built due to a relocation error. Which I assumed due to -fPIC and that is the reason however could not fix that.
More specifically, here is what I get, with the boost from the trunk,
$ ./b2
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.a(codecvt.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `vtable for std::codecvt<wchar_t, char, __mbstate_t>' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
I also tried these
./bjam -d2
./bjam address-model=64 cxxflags=-fPIC
as explained/discussed here
http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/fPIC-option-for-boost-td3176976.html
however did not help. I could not manage to build the shared libraries that I configure with boostrap.sh.

Answer 1

I had a similar issue trying to build mosh-1.2.2 on a standard debian squeeze installation. The following worked for me:
# cd /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5
# rm libstdc++.so
# ln -s ../../../x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 libstdc++.so
To explain in a more detail, the existing symlink was pointing to a non-existent file:
# cd /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5
# ls -l libstdc++.so
..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 May 3 2011 libstdc++.so -> ../../../libstdc++.so.6
..
I located the correct file location
# dpkg -S 'libstdc'
..
libstdc++6: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6
..
Then repaired the symlink as described in the first code segment.
The error I was getting during compiling was:
make[3]: *** [mosh-client] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2
/usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.a(functexcept.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `std::bad_typeid::~bad_typeid()' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.4.5/libstdc++.a: could not read symbols: Bad value
No idea how this particular debian squeeze server broke. I've been compiling on other squeeze systems with no trouble.