On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Lawrence Greenfield wrote: > Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 11:11:41 -0400 (EDT) > From: Rob Siemborski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Yep. Arch dislikes mixing PIC and non-PIC code inside a > > > relocatable object. > > > > Correct. On Solaris, I build lib/ and perl/sieve/lib with -fPIC > > just to build cyrus-imap perl stuff. > > Hmmmm. We've never had to do this on solaris. > > Yeah, Solaris is one of the platforms that is tolerant of mixing > non -fPIC into shared libraries. It poses a large memory hit (shared > libraries with non -fPIC code aren't shared between processes).
-zcombreloc linker flag make my installation require -fPIC. > The major problem with trying to add -fPIC to the distribution is that > isn't how it works on all compilers and all OS's. Thus the pain that > is libtool. I've thought about making all of Cyrus build with libtool, > and then I read some of the bug reports we get because of libsasl's > use of libtool and start thinking better of it. > > I wonder if we could write a configure test to determine if this is > necessary on a given platform. > > To do it in all generality requires duplicating libtool. > > Larry > > -- Igor
