Re: Re: Really odd PHP problem

From:	Andi Gutmans	Date:	Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:45:57 +0000
Subject:	Re: Re: Really odd PHP problem
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At 01:05 PM 9/8/2004 +0200, Derick Rethans wrote:

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Joe Orton wrote:
Didn't Joe mean that it's wrong on Linux/x86_64 or am I
misinterpreting his
email?
Yup I did mean that. Linux/x86_64 is an example of a platform where you cannot put non-PIC code into a shared object. libtool does honour -prefer-non-pic on this platform, and hence will create broken shared objects. Therefore I would presume that -prefer-non-pic is not safe to use by default in the hope that libtool will prevent you shooting yourself in the foot. Why can't we simply see this as a libtool bug?

Because we care about our users? :) I think we should just hard code the platforms we know to work for now. We can revisit libtool if/when they fix their problems. Andi