On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:05:37PM +0200, Derick Rethans wrote: > On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Joe Orton wrote: > > > > Didn't Joe mean that it's wrong on Linux/x86_64 or am I misinterpreting his > > > email? > > > > Yup I did mean that. Linux/x86_64 is an example of a platform where you > > cannot put non-PIC code into a shared object. libtool does honour > > -prefer-non-pic on this platform, and hence will create broken shared > > objects. Therefore I would presume that -prefer-non-pic is not safe to > > use by default in the hope that libtool will prevent you shooting > > yourself in the foot. > > Why can't we simply see this as a libtool bug?
If -prefer-non-pic flag is documented in libtool to mean "only build non-PIC code on platforms where it is safe to link such code into shared objects", then that would be reasonable, but I don't think that is the case. Regardless, doing this is safely just requires a case $host in i?86-*) whitelist, I guess. joe -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
