Justin Hibbits <chmeeed...@gmail.com> writes: > I tracked it down to the building of libsvn_swig_perl-1.a, and > swig_util_pl.c is compiled without -fPIC, which is required to build shared > libraries on PowerPC. Manually adding '-fPIC' to the COMPILE_SWIG_PL line > in the top-level Makefile (line 180) fixed this. But, in this, I noticed > there is no usage of a SWIG_PL_COMPILE, while there is a SWIG_PY_COMPILE > and SWIG_RB_COMPILE.
Subversion uses "perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ccopts" to determine which flags to use. Is the problem a fault with Subversion or your Perl installation? If you want to try writing a patch then look at build/ac-macros/swig.m4. -- Philip
