Lamar Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, no, -fPIC does not appear to be required for libpq.
My understanding was that at least on some platforms once you need -fPIC for
some libraries you need to make sure they were all compiled with it. That
means it's a pain if any libraries are provided
Greg Stark writes:
My understanding was that at least on some platforms once you need -fPIC for
some libraries you need to make sure they were all compiled with it. That
means it's a pain if any libraries are provided compiled with -fpic because
whenever find one that reaches that threshold
On Friday 28 November 2003 12:31 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've tried building PostgreSQL with -fpic on Sparc and saw no problems.
So I suggest that we change back to -fpic until we get detailed evidence.
Okay with me. It never struck me that we'd
Lamar Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The project lead for the Aurora SPARC Linux project is who recommended it in
the first place;
We were told equally positively, by equally well-informed persons, that
we should prefer -fpic if at all possible.
The best I have been able to tell is that none
Tom Lane wrote:
Lamar Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The project lead for the Aurora SPARC Linux project is who recommended it in
the first place;
We were told equally positively, by equally well-informed persons, that
we should prefer -fpic if at all possible.
The best I have been
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
On Saturday 29 November 2003 01:07 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
Lamar Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The project lead for the Aurora SPARC Linux project is who recommended it
in the first place;
We were told equally positively, by equally well-informed persons, that
we should prefer -fpic if at all
Late in the 7.4 release we've added a patch that changed -fpic to -fPIC
for Linux Sparc. We wanted to investigate that issue further later on.
I've tried building PostgreSQL with -fpic on Sparc and saw no problems.
So I suggest that we change back to -fpic until we get detailed evidence.
Any
Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've tried building PostgreSQL with -fpic on Sparc and saw no problems.
So I suggest that we change back to -fpic until we get detailed evidence.
Okay with me. It never struck me that we'd really seen adequate
evidence that -fPIC was needed.
