On 2008-06-19 19:39:09 +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > Unfortunately I can't try the patch on the same machine because the > > icc license has expired a few days ago (it was just an evaluation > > version). However I have access to another machine with icc installed; > > this is a different version, but it's also a version that doesn't > > accept -KPIC, so I assume the test will be significant. > > I've applied the patch with the above fixed now. I'll find a system or > a person to test this for me.
OK, finally I've just seen that on the other machine I mentioned (itanium), the old libtool was working, i.e. it selected -fPIC. If I understand the libtool code, libtool was selecting -KPIC only if the GCC test failed, and this would mean that this test was failing on x86_64 with icc 10.1 20080312. I was wondering why, and this is because MPFR's configure.in unsets GCC if __ICC is defined (I don't know why, I didn't write this code). It is defined on x86_64, but not on itanium!!! The icc version is a bit older on itanium, but this code was written on 2004-09-20 anyway. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
