Greg Stark writes:
> My understanding was that at least on some platforms once you need -fPIC for
> some libraries you need to make sure they were all compiled with it. That
> means it's a pain if any libraries are provided compiled with -fpic because
> whenever find one that reaches that threshol
Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So, no, -fPIC does not appear to be required for libpq.
My understanding was that at least on some platforms once you need -fPIC for
some libraries you need to make sure they were all compiled with it. That
means it's a pain if any libraries are provide
On Saturday 29 November 2003 01:07 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The project lead for the Aurora SPARC Linux project is who recommended it
> > in the first place;
> We were told equally positively, by equally well-informed persons, that
> we should prefer -fpic i
Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> The best I have been able to tell is that none of our .so's are anywhere
> >> near large enough to require -fPIC.
>
> > One question would be what happens when it fails? Does it fail visibly
> > so we would hear
Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> The best I have been able to tell is that none of our .so's are anywhere
>> near large enough to require -fPIC.
> One question would be what happens when it fails? Does it fail visibly
> so we would hear about it? If so, we can take
Tom Lane wrote:
> Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The project lead for the Aurora SPARC Linux project is who recommended it in
> > the first place;
>
> We were told equally positively, by equally well-informed persons, that
> we should prefer -fpic if at all possible.
>
> The best I h
Lamar Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The project lead for the Aurora SPARC Linux project is who recommended it in
> the first place;
We were told equally positively, by equally well-informed persons, that
we should prefer -fpic if at all possible.
The best I have been able to tell is that no
On Friday 28 November 2003 12:31 pm, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I've tried building PostgreSQL with -fpic on Sparc and saw no problems.
> > So I suggest that we change back to -fpic until we get detailed evidence.
> Okay with me. It never struck me that we'
Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've tried building PostgreSQL with -fpic on Sparc and saw no problems.
> So I suggest that we change back to -fpic until we get detailed evidence.
Okay with me. It never struck me that we'd really seen adequate
evidence that -fPIC was needed.
Makef
Late in the 7.4 release we've added a patch that changed -fpic to -fPIC
for Linux Sparc. We wanted to investigate that issue further later on.
I've tried building PostgreSQL with -fpic on Sparc and saw no problems.
So I suggest that we change back to -fpic until we get detailed evidence.
Any oth
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