On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 03:57:55PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote: > Orion Poplawski (orion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > I've gotten a request to build hdf with -fPIC because apparently when > > trying to build other packages that use it on x86_64 they complain. hdf > > only provides static libs. > > > > Is this the appropriate fix? > > If it's linked into a shared object later, yes. But in that case not just for x86_64, but for all architectures. If the library is small and is expected to be only linked into small shared libraries, -fpic can be used instead. What small means is architecture dependent, on i386/x86_64 -fpic/-fPIC are identical, on other arches it can mean e.g. 4K got entries limit or similar. Jakub
