(CENTOS 5.4) I had to change the Makefile for samtools to have -fPIC compile-time options so that I could then compile Bio-SamTools which was complaining
libbam.a(bgzf.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
-Stajich 19:03, 14 November 2009 (UTC)