On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Mark Kettenis <[email protected]> wrote: >> From: Gaetan Nadon <[email protected]> >> Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:34:29 -0500 >> >> So far no one has claimed adding fPic is the correct way of creating a >> shared lib or >> that it is a necessary workaround to a situation libtool cannot handle >> and that it will >> work on all supported platforms. > > There certainly are platforms where -fPIC isn't the right choice.
True, but libtool knows about these platforms and allows the user to control it's usage with --with-pic. Seems better than blindly adding -fPIC to the CFLAGS. -- Dan _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
