[PVFS-developers] libpvfs

[Rob Ross]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Don Porter wrote:

> I just noticed a small problem in this patch - I forgot the -fPIC flag
> and just got lucky b/c I am only looking at x86 hardware.
> 
> I don't know if it would be better to build everything for the library
> without -fPIC and make the static library, then re-compile everything
> with -fPIC, or if we want to take the performance penalty and just do
> everything with fPIC, or if we want to assume everyone is on hardware
> that can cope without this flag and not bother.

Definitely not "assume everyone is on hardware that can cope...".

My inclination is to not build shared libraries :)...

I guess recompiling is the right thing to do.

Rob