Re: Anyone running -current?

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

On 05/28/2013 11:14 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 08:43:57AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > Ok, of course it is obvious (and both Joerg and ld have been pointing
> > it out, but I didn't listen): the *_lc_global_locale reference is not
> > PIC, so rightfully ld complains about a relocation in the read-only .text
> > section.
> And this is not a compiler bug, but a consequence of MKPICLIB = no.
>
> #
> # On VAX using ELF, all objects are PIC, not just shared libraries,
> # so don't build the _pic version.
> #
> .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "vax"
> MKPICLIB=       no
> .endif
>
>
> Is it a lie? Help
It's not a lie.  All vax code generated should be PIC.

(I haven't followed the original discussion though).

-- Ragge