From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 24 21:40:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90E9D14F6C for ; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA25579; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:40:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id VAA00713; Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:40:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199902250521.VAA26209@bubba.whistle.com> Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:40:04 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Archie Cobbs Subject: Re: Interesting ld.so bug Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, (Julian Elischer) , (Terry Lambert) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Archie Cobbs wrote: > John Polstra writes: >> Julian Elischer wrote: >> > we used bsd.lib.mk so it did -pic automatically >> >> It doesn't add -fpic when building object files for archive libraries. > > We built both, and even with the shared version it failed.. Oh well. :-( > but whatever, this is just talk.. I'll try to put together a test > case. By the way, the workaround works for now so it's become less > urgent to fix... though I still believe there's a bug in there > somewhere. I'm inclined to believe you. There's also an outstanding P/R describing what sounds like a similar problem. If you could put together a test case, it would be great. John --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." -- H. L. Mencken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message