Lots of check-ins last night.... But not the one below.

The check-ins were all minor, like adding missing includes and
clearing warnings.

Do you mind making a quick pass to ensure I did not break something?

Jeff

On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 7:32 AM, Mobile Mouse <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think this is a fine patch. Even if -fPIC is unnecessary on OSX, it
> doesn't hurt there (I know because I never disable it :).
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 8, 2015, at 06:52, Jeffrey Walton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Sunday, June 7, 2015 at 9:47:51 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>
>> The GNUmakefile has the following:
>>
>>     # -fPIC is supported. Please report any breakage of -fPIC as a bug.
>>     # CXXFLAGS += -fPIC
>>
>> Compiling a x86_64 shared object results in a compile failure if -fPIC is
>> not present...
>>
>> QUESTION: is anyone aware of modern x86_64 compilers or platforms that
>> cannot tolerate PIC? (For some reasonable definition of modern).
>
>
> The following is the patch we are considering. It adds -fPIC for x86_64
> targets:
>
> diff --git a/GNUmakefile b/GNUmakefile
> index 61204cf..8f8e643 100644
> --- a/GNUmakefile
> +++ b/GNUmakefile
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ MKDIR = mkdir
>  EGREP = egrep
>  UNAME = $(shell uname)
>  IS_X86 = $(shell uname -m | $(EGREP) -c "i.86|x86|i86|amd64")
> +IS_X86_64 = $(shell uname -m | $(EGREP) -c "_64|d64")
>  IS_SUN_CC = $(shell $(CXX) -V 2>&1 | $(EGREP) -c "CC: Sun")
>  IS_LINUX = $(shell $(CXX) -dumpmachine 2>&1 | $(EGREP) -c "linux")
>  IS_MINGW = $(shell $(CXX) -dumpmachine 2>&1 | $(EGREP) -c "mingw")
> @@ -26,6 +27,11 @@ ifeq ($(CXX),gcc)    # for some reason CXX is gcc on
> cygwin 1
>  CXX = g++
>  endif
>
> +# Enable PIC for x86_64 targets
> +ifneq ($(IS_X86_64),0)
> +CXXFLAGS += -fPIC
> +endif
> +
>  ifeq ($(IS_X86),1)
>
>  GCC42_OR_LATER = $(shell $(CXX) -v 2>&1 | $(EGREP) -c "^gcc version
> (4.[2-9]|[5
> @@ -81,7 +87,7 @@ endif
>
>  ifeq ($(IS_LINUX),1)
>  LDFLAGS += -pthread
> -ifneq ($(shell uname -i | $(EGREP) -c "(_64|d64)"),0)
> +ifneq ($(IS_X86_64),0)
>  M32OR64 = -m64
>  endif
>  endif
>
> -fPIC does not appear to be needed on OS X 10.7 - 10.9/10.10 or OpenBSD 5.7.
> But rather that special case it (GNU make lacks logical operators), I think
> its easiest/cleanest to add it for all targets.
>

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