Date: 30 Jan 1998 14:08:24 -0600 From: stephen farrell <stephen@farrell.org> To: lcremean@tidalwave.net Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Elliot Lee <sopwith@cuc.edu>] Re: problems compiling obgtk under freebsd Message-ID: <873ei5ohc7.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: Lee Cremeans's message of "Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:13:52 -0500" References: <87d8h9oo5d.fsf@phaedrus.uchicago.edu> <19980130131352.29307@wakky.dyn.ml.org>
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Lee Cremeans <lee@wakky.dyn.ml.org> writes: > On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 11:41:18AM -0600, stephen farrell wrote: > > > > So I'm having trouble compiling elliot lee's gtk/objective c bindings > > which are used in the gnome project. The problem is with the linker, > > which, I'm sure, is in fact buggy as elliot points out below (b/c I've > > had about 1,000,000 compiles with libtool tell me so =). > > Are the object files being produced with the -fPIC -DPIC switches to GCC? > You need them in FreeBSD to produce shareable (position-independent) code, > since we don't use ELF (yet). Also, I've gotten the "relinking on behalf of > you buggy system linker" messages from libtool lots of times (I believe it > has to do with the way we do dlopen() and friends), but as long as -fPIC is > on, that shouldn't matter. I'm pretty sure that they are. All of the gtk stuff is compiled this way, and I assume (??) that when you make XFree86 in ports that these flags are set. -- Steve Farrell
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