* Peter Eisentraut ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > The reason for -fpic vs -fPIC (on the machines where it makes any > > difference at all) is that the former is faster. > > I don't doubt that, but out of curiosity, considering that everyone else > is using libtool, and libtool always uses -fPIC, what kind of impact > does this *really* have?
I certainly wouldn't assume something done in libtool is necessairly the
'smart' approach, ever.
> > I think the correct answer is for PL/Java to do s/-fpic/-fPIC/ on
> > CFLAGS in its Makefile, rather than trying to force the same on
> > everything else.
>
> That would certainly work, but is that the kind of interface we want to
> offer? In the extreme case, a module could end up redefining a great
> deal of the shared library knowledge that it was supposed to not have
> to care about.
I don't think it's all that sane to expect a generalized build system to
support every possible library compilation requirement...
Thanks,
Stephen
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