On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 06:27:18PM -0500, Robert Boehne wrote: > Ok, let me see if I understand this one, > under Linux hppa, (presumably with gcc) user has added -prefer-non-pic > to the CFLAGS explicitly, and configured with --enable-shared ??
The package adds -prefer-non-pic to the CFLAGS unconditionally (does not depend on the target arch) and relies on libtool to determine if it should pass -fPIC or not. As far as I know this works OK on all arches except hppa. The configure workaround I posted compiles a dummy library with -prefer-non-pic and checks if it fails. The way its done in the package is that the configure.in was doing LIBMPEG2_CFLAGS="$LIBMPEG2_CFLAGS -prefer-non-pic" I replaced it with AC_LIBTOOL_NON_PIC([LIBMPEG2_CFLAGS="$LIBMPEG2_CFLAGS -prefer-non-pic"]) with AC_LIBTOOL_NON_PIC as quoted in the previous email. > What platforms (aside from Alpha & RS/6000) does this work on? That package (using -prefer-non-pic unconditionally) is into debian now, it's been compiled successfully on all debian-supported arches except hppa, so that would be x86, m68k, sparc, alpha, powerpc, arm, mips/mipsel, ia64 and s390. I'm not sure exactly which of these use -fPIC or not. Only hppa breaks, as it tries to not use -fPIC where the architecture apparently requires -fPIC. Hope this helps, -- Michel "Walken" LESPINASSE Is this the best that god can do ? Then I'm not impressed. _______________________________________________ Libtool mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
