Debian 9 make error : /usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output

[kevinhooke]

Attempting to build on Debian 9, ./autogen.sh and ./configure complete successfully, but make fails with:
/usr/bin/ld: cryptonight/cryptonight.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against .bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: cryptonight/cuda_cryptonight_core.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against .bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/bin/ld: cryptonight/cuda_cryptonight_extra.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against .bss' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: Nonrepresentable section on output
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:529: recipe for target 'ccminer' failed
make[2]: *** [ccminer] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/kev/ccminer-cryptonight'
Makefile:729: recipe for target 'all-recursive' failed
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/kev/ccminer-cryptonight'
Makefile:399: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2
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Any suggestions on how to get beyond this?

[asgs]

I'm facing this, too. I'm trying to compile ccminer and I get this for lot of object files, not just ccminer-cryptonight. I did add -fPIC to the flags and I could see it being added to the g++, but it still errors out with that message

[ftherese]

not sure, but could be something useful here... I'm on Ubuntu 17 with same problem:
ethereum-mining/ethminer@186d055

Following those changes I was able to get ccminer to compile