On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
This test is skipped on a few arches like x86-64, hppa and s390,
and I think the test shouldn't exists at all. Most arches do not
support having non-pic code in a shared lib, for others pic is the
default. Afaik, on linux, i386 is the only arch that actually
supports non-pic code in a shared lib.
Having non-pic code in a shared lib has as effect that the lib
actually isn't shared by several processes, so it's a waste of
memory.
Sun's Solaris supports it in some OS versions and under the right
conditions. And yes, it is wasteful.
Bob
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Bob Friesenhahn
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GraphicsMagick Maintainer, http://www.GraphicsMagick.org/
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