I work for Microsoft SFU(services for unix) group and I am currently
investigating this fPIC issue for gcc 3.3 which is available with sfu 3.5. I
have currently no intention of supporting the latest gcc for interix but I am
more interested in fixing this fPIC issue for Interix as well as contributing
this fix to gcc users on Interix.
Has anybody before looked at this issue or is aware of it ?
Thanks
Mayank
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Buck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2007 10:20 PM
To: Mayank Kumar
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Information regarding -fPIC support for Interix gcc
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:22:37PM +0800, Mayank Kumar wrote:
> I am currently looking at interix gcc and found that -fPIC generated
> binaries crash although not all binaries crash. This has been known for
> quite some time since I found a lot of posts about it. I want to know if
> this issue has already been fixed and a patch submitted or this issues
> is still pending on Interix gcc. I am currently investigating this
> issue and was wondering if somebody has fixed it or not before starting
> investigation.
I took a look at Bugzilla, and the first thing I see is
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15212
which indicates that the compiler hasn't even bootstrapped on Interix in a
long time, though workarounds are proposed and a patch is given against a
4.2 snapshot. It looks like no one has treated the platform as a
priority. It's just a matter of not having a sufficiently motivated
volunteer, or else the sufficiently motivated volunteers are not
contributing their patches to gcc.gnu.org.
So, where are you getting your Interix gcc? Are you using an FSF release,
or is someone trying to support a fork?
