Hi there,<br>I am trying to install gromacs-4.5.4 on my local machine with FC, I tried following set of commands:<br><br>-----------------------------to install FFTW at location root/Desktop/Vivek/calcitonin/FFTW<br>./configure --prefix=/root/Desktop/Vivek/calcitonin/FFTW --enable-long-double<br>

make<br>make install<br>--------------------<br>export LDFLAGS=-L/root/Desktop/Vivek/calcitonin/FFTW/lib<br>export CPPFLAGS=-I/root/Desktop/Vivek/calcitonin/FFTW/include<br>-------------------to install gromacs at location /root/Desktop/Vivek/calcitonin/GROMACS-4.5.4<br>

./configure --prefix=/root/Desktop/Vivek/calcitonin/GROMACS-4.5.4/<br>make <br>make install<br>--------------------------------<br><br>and end up with following error<br>------------------------<br>/usr/bin/ld: /usr/local/lib/libfftw3f.a(plan-dft-c2r-3d.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol&#39; can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC<br>
/usr/local/lib/libfftw3f.a: could not read symbols: Bad value<br>collect2: ld returned 1 exit status<br>make[2]: *** [<a href="http://libmd.la">libmd.la</a>] Error 1<br>make[2]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/Vivek/calcitonin/gromacs-4.5.4/src/mdlib&#39;<br>
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1<br>make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/Desktop/Vivek/calcitonin/gromacs-4.5.4/src&#39;<br>make: *** [install-recursive] Error 1<br>-----------------------------------------<br><br>Does anybody have any idea regarding this error. Any insight and suggestion are appreciated.<br>
<br>regards,<br>Vivek<br>