[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 1466] [PATCH] selectable with/without PIC to build libGL on i386 Linux

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ajax at nwnk.net changed:

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------- Additional Comments From ajax at nwnk.net  2004-09-25 15:19 -------
Created an attachment (id=970)
 --> (https://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=970&action=view)
libglx-pic-overridable.patch

the first patch is broken.  BuildLibGlxWithoutPIC is always defined, so the
'#ifndef BuildLibGlxWithoutPIC' stanza never has any effect.  attached patch
does it better, and distros may force a BuildLibGlxWithoutPIC setting in
host.def.

i'd also make a note at this point that the Debian policy is broken:

"The shared version of a library must be compiled with -fPIC, and the static
version must not be."

this _will_ fail on amd64 when someone builds a DSO that links in code from a
static library.  on amd64 any object file that may find it's way into a DSO
must be compiled with -fPIC.  this is true of several other architectures, hppa
and (i think) ia64 at least.        
   
   
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