Re: [Bug#174433: gnokii_0.4.3-4(hppa/unstable): FTBFS: non-PIC in shared lib]

[Pawel Kot]

On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Bradley Marshall wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 03:06:28PM +0100, Pawel Kot wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Bradley Marshall wrote:
> > > Gnokii 0.4.3 couldn't build on both hppa and ia64.  The fix was not to
> > > mix PIC and non-PIC code.
> > What flags do you use? gnokii does compile without -fPIC on my boxes.
> > -fPIC is needed on non-Linux systems AFAIR.

I should write here non-Linux-x86 systems. Sorry.

> I needed to add a -fPIC in a couple of places to compile on hppa and
> ia64 - my normal intel box was fine as is.

I looked deeper into it. And I'm still not sure where the problem lies.
Maybe some with deeper gcc knowledge will give a hint how to solve this.
Are there any platform that need -fPIC and other that discourage it?

As far as I understand the problem, it is that libpq (the one from
postgres) is compiled without -fPIC. Bradley, perhaps the current solution
for you is to do 'CFLAGS=-fPIC ./configure' on hppa and ia64 and
'./configure' on all other.

pkot
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