Re: Patch for building Python libs under Linux x64 (fixed on Ubuntu 10)
Peter Gutmann <[email protected]>
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Mike Ivanov <[email protected]> writes: >AFAIK -fpic and -fPIC are identical on both i386 and x86_64 -- the most >popular platforms. So, -fPIC won't hurt anyone there. > >On m86k and SPARC their behaviour is different. Given the size of the library >I personally would rather always compile with -fPIC on these platforms. > >The conclusion is, -fPIC is the most reliable and safest option, though it >adds some load-time overhead on certain platforms. OK, thanks. Since the change that Justin requested was only for x86_64 (and the error report that requires it seems to be x86-64-specific) it should be OK just to enable it for that. Peter. _______________________________________________ Cryptlib mailing list [email protected] via Mail: [email protected] Archive: ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/crypt/cryptlib/archives/ http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.cryptlib Posts from non-subscribed addresses are blocked to prevent spam, please subscribe in order to post messages.