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Re: A config patch
- To: hjl at lucon dot org (H.J. Lu)
- Subject: Re: A config patch
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 15:11:27 -0600
- cc: jason at cygnus dot com (Jason Merrill), egcs at cygnus dot com, wilson at cygnus dot com, rth at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
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Jeff Law (law@cygnus.com)
Cygnus Solutions EGCS GNU Compiler System
http://www.cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/egcs
In message <m0x7AlP-0004edC@ocean.lucon.org>you write:
> >
> > >>>>> Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com> writes:
> >
> > > I don't understand why it is important for [ -z "$PICFLAG" ] to
> > > succeed. Irix 5 doesn't set PICFLAG, but I believe --enable-shared
> > > works nevertheless.
> >
> > Yep, works for me. It works on OSF/1, too.
> >
> > Jason
> >
>
> I was just informed that -fpic has to be used to compile libc.so
> for glibc on Linux/alpha. If it is really the case, one of my patch
> should be backed out and my Alpha PIC patch to config should be
> used at least for ELF/alpha.
So is it really the case? You don't seem certain.
jeff