Re: -fPIC

* Peter Eisentraut (peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net) wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > The reason for -fpic vs -fPIC (on the machines where it makes any
> > difference at all) is that the former is faster.
>
> I don't doubt that, but out of curiosity, considering that everyone else
> is using libtool, and libtool always uses -fPIC, what kind of impact
> does this *really* have?

I certainly wouldn't assume something done in libtool is necessairly the
'smart' approach, ever.

> > I think the correct answer is for PL/Java to do s/-fpic/-fPIC/ on
> > CFLAGS in its Makefile, rather than trying to force the same on
> > everything else.
>
> That would certainly work, but is that the kind of interface we want to
> offer? In the extreme case, a module could end up redefining a great
> deal of the shared library knowledge that it was supposed to not have
> to care about.

I don't think it's all that sane to expect a generalized build system to
support every possible library compilation requirement...

Thanks,

Stephen