From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 26 17:07:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9192D16A40E; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:07:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sepotvin@videotron.ca) Received: from relais.videotron.ca (relais.videotron.ca [24.201.245.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0A213C4B9; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:07:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sepotvin@videotron.ca) Received: from [10.0.0.136] ([67.70.237.74]) by VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-2.05 (built Apr 28 2005)) with ESMTPA id <0JCH008NDJKR3580@VL-MH-MR001.ip.videotron.ca>; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:07:40 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:07:40 -0500 From: "Stephane E. Potvin" In-reply-to: <45BA230C.2090900@freebsd.org> To: grehan@freebsd.org Message-id: <45BA355C.5090400@videotron.ca> Organization: TelcoBridges Inc. MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <45B9637E.1020900@freebsd.org> <45BA134B.9080608@videotron.ca> <45BA230C.2090900@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Cc: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xorg-server build hack X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:07:41 -0000 Peter Grehan wrote: > Hi Stephane, > >> I have a local patchset that I'm currently working on that add support >> for libgcc_s (shared libgcc) which might fix this problem. I have not >> tested it on powerpc but at least it's compiling (survives a make >> universe). If you want to give it a try just tell me and I'll send it >> to you. > > I don't know if it would help since Xorg config changes are required in > any case. The pic version of libgcc.a came about from amd64 since they > had similar issues to ppc with mixing static libs and pic libs. > > Were you seeing problems like this as well ? > I've done this to fix another problem which is not related to this one. I thought that it could help because the patch forces all library linking to be done against libgcc_s.so.1 instead of the static libgcc.a or libgcc_pic.a (there's no libgcc_pic.a anymore). The shared library shouldn't have any pic problems. Regards, Steph