Prakash Punnoor wrote: > Am Samstag April 29 2006 13:57 schrieb Klaus Schmidinger: >> Prakash Punnoor wrote: >>> Am Samstag April 29 2006 12:38 schrieb Prakash Punnoor: >>>> attached patch fixes that vdr (the executable and the static lib libpsi) >>>> get compiled with fPIC. Only shared libs need PIC, thus add this flag >>>> only when building plug-ins. Furthermore I added -g and -Wall to CFLAGS, >>>> as well, because of reasons of symmetry. >> Did I miss this posting? > > Don't know. Should be posted to the list. Did anybody else receive that posting? If so, can you please forward a copy to me? >>> Updated patch: I forgot to add -g -Wall to Make.conf.template... >>> ... >> Too late for version 1.4.0 - will look into this later. >> >> Or does this patch fix an actual problem? > > Well, I don't think compiling too much code as PIC will cause problems (apart > from (minor) possible performance lost), nevertheless it is unneeded. Is that "compile time" or "runtime" performance? Apparently PIC is only available on special processors, especially *not* Intel, so I can't test this myself. Let's wait with this until after version 1.4. Klaus
