Re: libtool -prefer-non-pic for apxs builds?

Not all dls support non-PIC code in DSOs. If you know that your system handles it fine, just pass the right -pic flag to configure. - Sascha On Fri, 1 Aug 2003, Ilia Alshanetsky wrote: > On August 1, 2003 12:22 pm, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > Guys, what do you think about defaulting the build to use -prefer-non-pic > > and having libtool build a non-pic libphp4.so when building the Apache > > DSO? That library isn't linked into other programs anyway, and Apache's > > fork+exec model ensures the pages will be shared regardless of pic. I > > don't really see what we gain by building it pic, and we certainly lose > > quite a bit by doing so. In the order of 15-20% execution time on both > > FreeBSD and Linux with gcc in my tests. > > I think this is a good idea, I've been manually doing the same thing on my > servers by compiling cli & apache separately. Performance wise in my > experience no-pic code is 25-30% faster on Linux. So far it worked perfectly > and I had not experienced any problems. I see no reason why we cannot offer > all PHP users the same performance advantages. > > Ilia > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >