From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com>
To: hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu)
Cc: jason@cygnus.com (Jason Merrill), egcs@cygnus.com, wilson@cygnus.com, rth@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: A config patch 
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 1997 14:11:00 -0000
Message-id: <22336.873666687@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <m0x7AlP-0004edC@ocean.lucon.org>
X-SW-Source: 1997-09/msg00257.html

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Jeff Law (law@cygnus.com)
Cygnus Solutions		EGCS GNU Compiler System
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  In message < m0x7AlP-0004edC@ocean.lucon.org >you write:
  > > 
  > > >>>>> Ian Lance Taylor <ian@cygnus.com> writes:
  > > 
  > > > I don't understand why it is important for [ -z "$PICFLAG" ] to
  > > > succeed.  Irix 5 doesn't set PICFLAG, but I believe --enable-shared
  > > > works nevertheless.
  > > 
  > > Yep, works for me.  It works on OSF/1, too.
  > > 
  > > Jason
  > > 
  > 
  > I was just informed that -fpic has to be used to compile libc.so
  > for glibc on Linux/alpha. If it is really the case, one of my patch
  > should be backed out and my Alpha PIC patch to config should be
  > used at least for ELF/alpha.
So is it really the case?  You don't seem certain.

jeff