Re: [Gaim-devel] Re: GAIM compile error

[Ethan B. <ebl...@cs...>]

Torrey McMahon spake unto us the following wisdom:
> >>>>> 	gcc: unrecognized option `-KPIC'
> >>>>> 	gcc: language depend not recognized
> >>>>> 	gcc: Account.c: linker input file unused because linking not done
> >
> >Seems like all the errors are during compiling perl support, even though=
 it
> >doesn't really solve the problem, but you may try --disable-perl.
>=20
> Actually it looks like gcc is ignoring the KPIC option though I can't=20
> see where it got it from. I'd search in config.log for KPIC and see=20
> where it's getting set. On my Solaris system the perl includes don't set =
it.

Perl was compiled with Sun cc, and gaim is being compiled with gcc.
Therefore perl adds -KPIC to CFLAGS for Makefile.PL, but gcc does not
know what to do with it.

Ethan

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