configure gets PICFLAG wrong on UnixWare
Jeremy Allison
jeremy at valinux.com
Thu Jul 5 22:12:04 GMT 2001
Michael Davidson wrote:
>
> I just tried building HEAD on a UnixWare system and got a flood
> of very strange warning messages from the compiler as it tried
> to build the PIC objects for the libsmbclient shared library ...
>
> UW: cc: warning -o has renamed the output of -P, perhaps unintentionally
>
> On closer examination I discovered that configure had decided that
> the PICFLAG for the compiler should be -fPIC.
>
> Unfortunately, -fPIC is a legal (OK, *almost* legal) option to the
> UnixWare C compiler, but it doesn't mean "generate PIC code" ...
As this is a unixware wierdness can't we fix it the same
way we do for HPUX, by adding a special check (like the
HP -ae fix).
Jeremy.
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