Re: -fpic vs. -fPIC - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: -fpic vs. -fPIC
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0311301452060.11144-100000@peter.localdomain
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In response to Re: -fpic vs. -fPIC  (Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>)
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Greg Stark writes:

> My understanding was that at least on some platforms once you need -fPIC for
> some libraries you need to make sure they were all compiled with it. That
> means it's a pain if any libraries are provided compiled with -fpic because
> whenever find one that reaches that threshold they all have to be recompiled.

Considering that mostly everyone else uses -fPIC across the board (because
it is libtool's behavior and also the policy of several distributions),
either no one has used PostgreSQL on those platforms or there is no
problem.

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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