Charles wrote:
> Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
>> With GNU as PIC is not an noop, when -DPIC is used to invoke gas the
>> generated assembly is broken. I saw this problem with a
>> reautoconfiscated version of GMP. This may be unusual, but there was
>> libtool used to invoke gas.
>>
>> While -DPIC is a noop for usual compilation, it is harmful when used
>> as gas flag to compile assembly, I suggest to remove it entirely when
>> target is cygwin. Change would be in libtool.m4 line 4971 ff in
>> libtool-1.5.10.
>>
>> Alternative: don't pass flag through when gas is called.
> I don't see anywhere that "-DPIC" is ever invoked on cygwin. Please
> send a patch to libtool.m4 that fixes the problem for you.
> BTW, somebody mentioned libtool CVS branch-2.0 as being too "cutting
> edge" for cygwin use...FYI, libtool-cvs-branch2.0 passes ALL regression
> tests which is better than libtool has EVER done on our platform. I'm
> thinking of releasing a test version of the next beta...
--- libtool.m4~ 2004-08-04 13:08:29.955128000 +0200
+++ libtool.m4 2004-08-04 13:09:27.497870400 +0200
@@ -4972,6 +5028,9 @@ case "$host_os" in
*djgpp*)
_LT_AC_TAGVAR(lt_prog_compiler_pic, $1)=
;;
+ *cygwin*)
+ _LT_AC_TAGVAR(lt_prog_compiler_pic, $1)=
+ ;;
*)
_LT_AC_TAGVAR(lt_prog_compiler_pic, $1)="$_LT_AC_TAGVAR(lt_prog_compiler_pic,
$1)ifelse([$1],[],[ -DPIC],[ifelse([$1],[CXX],[ -DPIC],[])])"
;;
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