Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> writes:
> Re: Tom Lane 2017-05-30 <1564.1496176732@sss.pgh.pa.us>
>> It'd be interesting if people could gather similar numbers on other
>> platforms of more real-world relevance, such as ppc64. But based on
>> this small sample, I wouldn't object to just going to -fPIC across
>> the board.
> [ more numbers ]
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.
Next question: should we back-patch this change, or just do it in HEAD?
regards, tom lane