[ Let's PLEASE all keep the mail headers in tact. My bad for not including
Brian earlier, so if possible could all future mails please include Bastian,
Dirk, Kurt, Brian and the BTS as for this mail ? ]
[ Bastian, I'll send you two emails by Brian. Please consider those before
replying. We may also want to get Mathias (Debian and Ubuntu gcc maintainer)
involved. ]
On 7 April 2006 at 13:41, Bastian Blank wrote:
| On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 06:27:25AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > I am still a bit suspicious of your
| > brute force replacement of -fpic. Or do you know for sure that gcc 4.*
| > requires it? Should it then be conditional on gcc/g++ versions be larger
| > than a threshold?
|
| It is not related to the compiler version. -fpic is documented to have
| limitations on some systems and is not reliable on some of them for
| larger software. The usage of -fPIC enables the use of other relocation
| types which don't have this limitations (or much larger). On most arches
| it don't make any difference at all.
Bastian, could you please document on which architectures, and for which gcc
versions, this fails? R actually has a pretty darn good record of building
on many platforms and gcc variants, as well as a few non gcc compilers, so I
do not want to discard the accumulated experience from the R side this
early.
I'm sure we get this resolved in a way that makes everybody happy, and gets R
to build everywhere.
Thanks, Dirk
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