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Taimaz, > It now passed the step, but some other errors have occurred. Did you notice > I'm using the older version? > Thanks for your helps The file "make.log" contained the following: making `dynamic' in directory /home/taimaz/Downloads/udunits-1.12.11/src/perl make[1]: Entering directory `/home/taimaz/Downloads/udunits-1.12.11/src/perl' /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl/5.14/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /usr/share/perl/5.14/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap UDUNITS.xs > UDUNITS.xsc && mv UDUNITS.xsc UDUNITS.c Please specify prototyping behavior for UDUNITS.xs (see perlxs manual) c89 -c -I../lib -I../port/misc -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g -DVERSION=\"1.12.11\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.12.11\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl/5.14/CORE" -Df2cFortran UDUNITS.c Running Mkbootstrap for UDUNITS () chmod 644 UDUNITS.bs rm -f blib/arch/auto/UDUNITS/UDUNITS.so cc -shared -O2 -g -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector UDUNITS.o -o blib/arch/auto/UDUNITS/UDUNITS.so \ -L/home/taimaz/Downloads/udunits-1.12.11/src/perl/../lib -ludunits -lm \ /usr/bin/ld: /home/taimaz/Downloads/udunits-1.12.11/src/perl/../lib/libudunits.a(utlib.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `.bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /home/taimaz/Downloads/udunits-1.12.11/src/perl/../lib/libudunits.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[1]: *** [blib/arch/auto/UDUNITS/UDUNITS.so] Error 1 It looks like the perl(1) utility was built using a different compiler -- one that doesn't play well with c89(1). Do you need the Perl interface? If not, then go to the top-level source-directory, execute the command "make distclean", set the PERL environment variable to the empty string, and rebuild the package starting with the execution of the configure(1) script. Regards, Steve Emmerson Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: OBR-846828 Department: Support UDUNITS Priority: Normal Status: Closed