Error compiling/installing Tango 9.2.5a on Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS

General Installation
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Hi all,

I’m trying to recompile tango on a freshly installed Ubuntu 16.04 VM.
The DataBaseds compilation failed at link stage with the following error:

make[3]: Entering directory '/home/nicolas/src/tango-9.2.5a/build/cppserver/database'
  CXXLD  DataBaseds
/usr/bin/ld: /home/nicolas/src/tango-9.2.5a/build/lib/cpp/client/.libs/libtango.a(dbapi_class.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/home/nicolas/src/tango-9.2.5a/build/lib/cpp/client/.libs/libtango.a: error adding symbols: Bad value

The error is there with both gcc 4.7 and 5.4.

Before diving deeper into the problem, I was wondering if there’s a known workaround to this problem.

Thanks.
N.

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Hi Nicolas,

I did manage to compile Tango 9.2.5 on Ubuntu 16.04 when it was released so I know it is possible. I did notice that if you do not have a lot of memory on your machine then gcc fails. How much RAM do you have on this machine?

Andn

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Hi Andy,
I think you’re right, the amount of RAM allocated to this virtual machine is the problem. So far, it has only 1Go.
Thanks for your help.
N.