On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:13:00PM +0200, Yann Dirson wrote: > Right - I, for sure, know the bigloo build system does not exactly > meets the criteria to get labelled as robust, and stderr regularly > getting thrown to /dev/null really does not help...
I particularily like the header about "please don't talk to me about autoconf" at the top of ./configure :-) > Well, the whole PIC issue is quite messy and has a heavy history in > this package. The whole idea behind this test was, IIRC, that non-PIC > code is really faster, and upstream really makes lots of such perf > tuning. > > But I thought this test was completely uneffective these days, since > all platforms got built with -fPIC - possibly I got it wrong. Forcing > -fPIC may be the easy way out. Yes, it was, until something changed on amd64 which made _linking_ non-PIC code fail and thus confused the configure script. Anyhow, Debian policy states that all library code must be built with -fPIC and all non-library code must be built without -- anything else is bound to break on about everything but i386. For the performance issues, -fPIC should actually get better performance with regard to runtime linking, memory usage etc., so it's not all that clear-cut, but that's a moot point. The NMU has been done, and I hope it will fix those problems once and for all. (Fat chance :-) ) /* Steinar */ -- Homepage: http://www.sesse.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
