Re: -HEAD build failure on OpenBSD 3.6-current/Sparc64

Tom Lane wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner <mm-mailinglist(at)madness(dot)at> writes:
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>>Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>>>Why did you remove -DPIC ?
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>>uhm partly because I sent the wrong patch and partly because I didn't
>>understood what that to do anyway(in the !Sparc case). The only place I
>>can find on my machine where defining PIC seems to have an effect is in
>>/usr/include/sparc64/asm.h - so I would guess it was a no-op anyway on
>>Openbsd/!Sparc.
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> It may do nothing, but since it was in there and not causing trouble,
> I think it's probably best to leave it.

agreed - leaving it in is definitely a safer approach

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>>But my programming skills are somewhat limited so I would definitly need
>>some guidance on this or I will just sent another patch with adds -DPIC
>>back for both cases if you want.
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> No, I can change it.

thanks

Stefan