From: Tom L. <tg...@ss...> - 2013-11-23 05:10:15
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Greg Stark <st...@mi...> writes: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 8:51 PM, Peter Eisentraut <pe...@gm...> wrote: >> According to the Debian build logs, postgres-xc compiles the entire >> backend with -fPIC. Not sure what sense that makes. > Debian policy is to always use -fPIC > IIRC -fpic is good enough as long as the total size of the library is below > some limit. I'm not sure precisely what this size is that has to be below > the limit but if I recall correctly it's something you have no way to > determine in advance for a general purpose library. So Debian decided long > long ago to just use -fPIC always. Well, in that case they did a really crappy job of applying that policy to their Postgres packages, because it sure sounds like there's still some -fpic switches laying about in their builds. But in any case, that seems to me like a pretty brain-dead policy (hint: if you need -fPIC, you'll get build failures that tell you so), so I feel no need to adopt it for standard Postgres builds. regards, tom lane |