Re: -fpic vs. -fPIC

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: -fpic vs. -fPIC
Date: 2003-11-30 13:55:34
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0311301452060.11144-100000@peter.localdomain
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Greg Stark writes:

> My understanding was that at least on some platforms once you need -fPIC for
> some libraries you need to make sure they were all compiled with it. That
> means it's a pain if any libraries are provided compiled with -fpic because
> whenever find one that reaches that threshold they all have to be recompiled.

Considering that mostly everyone else uses -fPIC across the board (because
it is libtool's behavior and also the policy of several distributions),
either no one has used PostgreSQL on those platforms or there is no
problem.

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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