Re: Tom Lane 2017-05-31 <28752.1496238931@sss.pgh.pa.us>
> OK, this looks good to me. Just to make sure everyone's on the
> same page, what I propose to do is simplify all our platform-specific
> Makefiles that use either -fpic or -fPIC to use -fPIC unconditionally.
> This affects the netbsd, linux, and openbsd ports. Looks like we should
> also change the example link commands in dfunc.sgml.
Ack.
> Next question: should we back-patch this change, or just do it in HEAD?
Debian "needs" it for 9.6, but I've already pushed the s390x patch in
the original posting, so I could just live with it being just in head.
But of course it would be nice to have everything in sync.
Christoph