Re: On non-PIC PAM module for OpenSolaris.

[Simon Josefsson]

Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:

> Dear Russ Albery,
>
> fredag den  5 oktober 2012 klockan 12:23 skrev Russ Allbery detta:
>> Mats Erik Andersson <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>> > there is a problem with pam_shishi.so in OpenSolaris
>> > and OpenIndiana. The module builds well with "--with-pic",
>> > but fails completely without PIC.
>> 
>> When would you build a non-PIC PAM module for Solaris?  I didn't think
>> Solaris supported static PAM modules.
>> 
>> In other words, is the actual bug that --with-pic is not the default on
>> Solaris?
>
> Indeed! This hits the mark for flavours of Solaris.

So, is there a standard idiom to turn --with-pic on by default that we
should use?  Or just document this fact somewhere?

Thanks,
/Simon