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Problem to configure binutils in bfd/configure -fpic and -fPIC flags...

Alan Modra amodra@bigpond.net.au
Mon Mar 4 14:43:00 GMT 2002 
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:13:55PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:16:35AM +0100, Christian Jönsson wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 11:46:09AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > 
> > > bfd/ChangeLog
> > > 	* configure.in (WIN32LIBADD): Don't eval PICFLAG assignment.
> > > 	* configure: Regenerate.
> > 
> > OK, sounds fine to me...
> 
> Alan, does this affect the 2.12 branch?

Yes.

>  Does it need to be fixed
> before increasingly imminent release?

The problem will only be seen by people building on a sparc host with
--enable-shared.  There won't even be any effect on the tools unless
it's a cross-build for windows, and even then the effect is minimal.
The trouble is that the configure error is highly visible.  Depends
on how many bug-reports you want to field.  :)

-- 
Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre
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