Re: Building on S390

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Greg Stark <stark(at)mit(dot)edu>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>, PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, postgres-xc-developers(at)lists(dot)sourceforge(dot)net
Subject: Re: Building on S390
Date: 2013-11-23 15:44:53
Message-ID: 1385221493.13910.3.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Fri, 2013-11-22 at 23:32 +0000, Greg Stark 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

My point is, they compile the *backend* as position-independent code.
The backend is not a shared library. Maybe it is in Postgres-XC? But
at least this makes their build process significantly different, so it's
doubtful that this is a PG-proper issue.

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