If you use -fpic instead of -fPIC, linker fall down, go boom. --- apache_1.3.14/src/Configure.fpic Fri Dec 1 15:25:17 2000 +++ apache_1.3.14/src/Configure Fri Dec 1 15:25:42 2000 @@ -1034,14 +1034,14 @@ LDFLAGS_MOD_SHLIB=$LDFLAGS_SHLIB ;; *-linux1) - CFLAGS_SHLIB="-fpic" + CFLAGS_SHLIB="-fPIC" LDFLAGS_SHLIB="-Bshareable" LDFLAGS_MOD_SHLIB=$LDFLAGS_SHLIB LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT="-rdynamic" ;; *-linux2) LD_SHLIB="gcc" - CFLAGS_SHLIB="-fpic" + CFLAGS_SHLIB="-fPIC" LDFLAGS_SHLIB="-shared" LDFLAGS_MOD_SHLIB=$LDFLAGS_SHLIB LDFLAGS_SHLIB_EXPORT="-rdynamic"