[PVFS-developers] Re: libpvfs

[Robert Latham]

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 03:26:44PM -0600, Don Porter wrote:
> 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.

About all i know aobut -fPIC is that it's something Debian requires of
all libraries :>  Just what *is* the performance penalty of making a
library posistion independent?  

==rob

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