RE: current hpux status

[David Korn <dkorn at pixelpower dot com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alexandre Oliva [mailto:aoliva@redhat.com]
>Sent: 26 January 2001 16:42


  Hi Alexandre, PMFBI, but...


>On Jan 26, 2001, "John David Anglin" <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> wrote:
>
>>> On Jan 26, 2001, Christian Iseli <chris@ludwig-alpha.unil.ch> wrote:
>>> 
>>> > --disable-shared and still insists on building using 
>-fPIC -DPIC ...
>>> 
>>> > Might be some configury trouble ?
>>> 
>>> Nope.  libgcc is *always* built with -fPIC.
>
>> libgcc?  The failure occured building the support section of 
>libstdc++.
>
>libsupc++ must be PIC for the same reasons as libgcc.

  Can you point me at a summary of those reasons (in the libgcc case)? One
of the problems with VxWorks-powerpc is that PIC (to be precise, SysV/EABI
relocation type 18 == PLT_RELOC24) isn't supported by the VxWorks dynamic
loader.  I've patched this in my development sources by adding a new t- file
that excludes the mrelocatable option, and it seems to work OK for me,
but I'd like to get a clue at what might be broken as a result.

   cheers, 
      DaveK
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