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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [PATCH] use -prefer-non-pic on x86-{freebsd,linux}
From: derick@php.net (Derick Rethans)

On Thu, 16 Sep 2004, Joe Orton wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 06:31:56AM -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:
> >
> > There is already a --without-pic/--with-pic flag that just doesn't work.
> > I'd key it off of that.
>
> It doesn't work because PHP prevents AC_PROG_LIBTOOL from interpreting
> it by doing "unset with_pic".
>
> So one solution would be to remove that hack and in the case where
> --with-pic or --without-pic is passed to configure, never explicitly
> specify a pic "preference" to the libtool script.  And make the default
> as if "--without-pic" was passed in the x86* whitelist.
>
> Index: configure.in
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /repository/php-src/configure.in,v

<snip patch>

Did we ever came to the conclusion whether we should put this patch into
CVS. AFAIK everybody agreed with it...

regards,
Derick
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