<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.26.0"> </HEAD> <BODY> On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 17:42 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Mark Kettenis <<A HREF="mailto:mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl">mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl</A>> wrote: >> From: Gaetan Nadon <<A HREF="mailto:memsize@videotron.ca">memsize@videotron.ca</A>> >> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:34:29 -0500 >> >> So far no one has claimed adding fPic is the correct way of creating a >> shared lib or >> that it is a necessary workaround to a situation libtool cannot handle >> and that it will >> work on all supported platforms. > > There certainly are platforms where -fPIC isn't the right choice. True, but libtool knows about these platforms and allows the user to control it's usage with --with-pic. Seems better than blindly adding -fPIC to the CFLAGS. </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> I interpreted Mark's comment as confirming that -fPIC should not be added to CFLAGS as it would not be appropriate for all platforms. Perhaps Mark could comment on the patch you submitted, if not already done: <A HREF="http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-November/015867.html">http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2010-November/015867.html</A> <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> <PRE> -- Dan </PRE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>