From 5aa3b044466c1d4e56b2ee5bc6fc6b15d24f4217 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wolfgang Bangerth <bangerth@math.tamu.edu>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:21:46 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Talk about a warning.

git-svn-id: https://svn.dealii.org/trunk@20884 0785d39b-7218-0410-832d-ea1e28bc413d
---
 deal.II/doc/readme.html | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/deal.II/doc/readme.html b/deal.II/doc/readme.html
index 259ee55ab3..8e7c5313e9 100644
--- a/deal.II/doc/readme.html
+++ b/deal.II/doc/readme.html
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <title>The deal.II Readme</title>
   <link href="screen.css" rel="StyleSheet">
   <meta name="author" content="the deal.II authors <authors @ dealii.org>">
-  <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 by the deal.II authors">
+  <meta name="copyright" content="Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 by the deal.II authors">
   <meta name="date" content="$Date$">
   <meta name="svn_id" content="$Id$">
   <meta name="keywords" content="deal.II">
@@ -637,6 +637,15 @@
       in a home directory for example, you can use configure
       switches <code>--with-metis-include, --with-metis-libs</code>.
       </p>
+
+      <p>
+	On some systems, when using shared libraries for deal.II, you may get
+	warnings of the kind <code>libmetis.a(pmetis.o): relocation R_X86_64_32
+	  against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared
+	  object; recompile with -fPIC</code> when linking. This can be
+	avoided by recompiling METIS with <code>-fPIC</code> as a compiler
+	flag.
+      </p>
     </dd>
 
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