Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Tom Lane wrote: >> The best I have been able to tell is that none of our .so's are anywhere >> near large enough to require -fPIC.
> One question would be what happens when it fails? Does it fail visibly > so we would hear about it? If so, we can take the risk. Yes, you'd get a link failure. On the platforms I've seen it on (HPUX at least, on an old project with .so's in the dozens-of-megabytes range) the error message is pretty specific that you should have used -fPIC. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])