All, As I've blasted across the universe, I'm trying to package a set of computer forensic apps. I'm tracking my progress here. http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Digital_Forensics_/_Incident_Response The next one on my list is pyflag. I have a package in OBS: home:gregfreemyer:Tools-for-forensic-boot-cd > pyflag But the build is failing in the INSTALL section with: == gcc -shared -I/usr/include/python2.7 -I../../src/include -L -lpython2.7 -o pypacket.so pypacket.c .libs/pypacket.a -lpthread -ldl -lutil In file included from /usr/include/python2.7/Python.h:8:0, from ../../src/include/pypacket.h:4, from pypacket.c:8: /usr/include/python2.7/pyconfig.h:1161:0: warning: "_POSIX_C_SOURCE" redefined [enabled by default] /usr/include/features.h:215:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition pypacket.c:323:5: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type [enabled by default] pypacket.c:323:5: warning: (near initialization for 'PyPacketType.tp_getattr') [enabled by default] /usr/lib64/gcc/x86_64-suse-linux/4.6/../../../../x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: /tmp/ccHOtZu6.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /tmp/ccHOtZu6.o: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status == I have unpacked the tarball and manually done "./configure; make; make install" and I get the same error. If I cd into "pyflag-0.87-pre1/src/lib" and then do a make pypacket.so (which seems to be the goal of the above gcc command), I get the exact same error. So I'm in the right place, but I don't know how to debug this any further. I've attached the Makefile from pyflag-0.87-pre1/src/lib folder. Can anyone help me with that? Thanks Greg