title: 64 bit Linux/Ubuntu and openssl issue (could not read symbols: Bad value)
body: <p>Normally I search a lot and read a lot to fix my issues, but for this particular problem, it has been pretty unproductive.</p>
  
  <p>I am running a 64bit Ubuntu Linux server on which I installed LAMP stack, and had problem with libcurl not having SSL support, while the OS binary does have SSL support. The PHP just cannot read it. When I searched for solutions and tried doing the following to enable ssl support while installing PHP, I got the problem..</p>
  
  <pre><code>./configure .... --with-openssl
  ...
  ....
  /usr/bin/ld: ext/standard/.libs/info.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
  ext/standard/.libs/info.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
  collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
  make: *** [libphp5.la] Error 1
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So, it quit suddenly. I tried doing --enable-shared --without-pic arguments to no avail.</p>