Ping: Cygwin libtool / assembler problem with -DPIC

[Gerrit P. Haase]

Gerrit wrote:

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> Hello,

> With GNU as PIC is not an noop, when -DPIC is used to invoke gas the
> generated assembly is broken.  I saw this problem with a
> reautoconfiscated version of GMP.  This may be unusual, but there was
> libtool used to invoke gas.

> While -DPIC is a noop for usual compilation, it is harmful when used
> as gas flag to compile assembly, I suggest to remove it entirely when
> target is cygwin. Change would be in libtool.m4 line 4971 ff in
> libtool-1.5.10.

> Alternative: don't pass flag through when gas is called.


> Gerrit


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