On Wednesday 21 December 2005 03:47, Lucas Hazel wrote:
Regarding -fPIC, I've come across a few applications that won't compile without it. I've heard that not using it results in a slight performance increase, but that doesn't bother me. I'd rather my 0.2% CPU time to be used doing things correctly rather than quickly.
I've heard/read that too. But however, Matt left it out and told me he hasn't got any problems so far. http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/archs/amd64/ ------------snip------------ [..] On AMD64, this is a necessity, if shared objects aren't built with support for position independent code, the build process bails out with an error message like this: foo.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC [..] ------------snap------------ bye, danm -- Daniel Mueller Berlin, Germany OpenPGP: 1024D/E4F4383A