[PD-dev] hammer/accum error on AMD64

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:32 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
>
>> /usr/bin/ld: hammer/accum.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local
>> symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with
>> -fPIC hammer/accum.o: could not read symbols: Bad value
>> Shouldn't all externals be compiled with -fPIC on Linux?  I know  
>> Darwin/Mac OS
>> X compiles DLLs as -fPIC by default.
>
> What's the effect of -fPIC and -fpic in 32-bit mode on PC ? Are these
> options ignored or do they have some slight effect that I don't know
> about?

I was under the impression that -fPIC should be used on shared  
libraries for Linux as well, I think Günter said something to that  
effect some time ago.  I don't have anything to back that up other than  
a recollection.

.hc

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