Junio C Hamano <junkio@xxxxxxx> writes: > Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> writes: > >> Also, is there any real problem with just using -fPIC? > > Personally, not really, but I consider it a workaround having to > compile with -fPIC (being able to compile with -fPIC is a > feature). > > Doesn't it have performance implications to use -fPIC when you > do not have to? > > By the way, you also need to adjust the testsuite so that it > finds the Perl modules from freshly built tree before > installing. I think (but haven't checked yet) the stuff written > in Python does that already, so you might want to mimic it. So what was being compiled was a shared Git.so. 32bit x86 is on of the few architectures that allows you to build a .so without compiling with -fPIC. The question is why are we building with a .so? Eric - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html