On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:54:32 am Roland McGrath wrote: > > Actually, x86 was one of the archs which fucked us. Richard Henderson and > > I *had* this, but ld -shared without -fPIC helpfully tells you "you're doing > > it wrong" on x86-64. > > This complaint could easily be (have been) made optional. Yep, I even had a patch. And meanwhile we could have lived with -fPIC modules with some loss of performance (I think). But at some level the problems accumulate until you go "nice idea, let's go do something else" :) But don't let me discourage you! Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html