On 7/20/12 8:03 AM, Knut Petersen wrote: > Am 18.07.2012 16:29, schrieb Adam Jackson: >> So this really honestly is a toolchain problem, not a driver problem. > > Neither icecream nor gcc are broken. > > The solution is pretty simple: > > ==================================== > Never ever include -v or --verbose in CFLAGS > ==================================== > > Why? > > Because otherwise there will be some output to > stdout during the -fPIC test compile executed from > configure, and that output causes the build system > to erroneously assume that -fPIC does not work. > > Hence xorg parts that normally would be build with > -fPIC will be built without that flag. autoconf bug! Nice find. > I think the test for "-fPIC" support is fundamentally > broken and should be fixed. Or would it be better > to check for -v and --verbose in CFLAGS? It sounds like the test is broken, yeah. Although I wonder how many other standard autoconf tests have this property. - ajax
