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Re: ppc situation
- To: bcollins at debian dot org
- Subject: Re: ppc situation
- From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 13:14:57 -0700
- CC: howarth at nitro dot med dot uc dot edu, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <10106301539.ZM30638@nitro.med.uc.edu> <20010630154611.K301@visi.net>
- Reply-to: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 15:46:11 -0400
> From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 03:39:29PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > Hello,
> > If I understand the current situation with the powerpc arch
> > in glibc cvs, a number of programs will have to be patched to
> > compile with -fpic to work correctly including some of kde 2.1.1.
> > It appears that the stock 2.2.3 glibc release doesn't have this
> > problem but that the current cvs does since debian glibc 2.2.3-6
> > packages causes such breakage on debianppc. If the libc developers
>
> Uh, use -fPIC, not -fpic. That is not a breakage in glibc.
They should be equivalent; the only differences are that -fpic has
more limitations on the size of the library, but generates faster
code.
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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>