Use of gsl on x86_64

[William John Murray]

  Hello there,
         I am trying to use gsl on F8 with a third party programme
'root' (root.cern.ch) which needs to be compiled. On i686 this was fine,
but on x86_64 I get:
   
usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib64/libgslcblas.a(sasum.o): relocation R_X86_64_32
against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object;
recompile with -fPIC 
/usr/lib64/libgslcblas.a: could not read symbols: Bad value  

  The advice from that end is tp do what gcc says - compile gsl with
-fPIC. I wondered whether there is a reaction here - could we change the
Fedora build to include this?
    
    Thank you,
               Bill
 
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