Re: gEDA-user: PCB plug-in to update footprints in layouts

[Dean Ferreyra <dferreyra@xxxxxxx>]

Dan McMahill wrote:
> DJ Delorie wrote:
>>> /usr/bin/ld: footprintupdate.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a
>>> local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile
>>> with -fPIC
>> Shared libraries should ALWAYS be built with -fpic or -fPIC.  The i386
>> gets away without it because the developers got tired of answering
>> questions like the above, and put in special handling for that error
>> case to make it work.
> 
> the option to produce pic code is compiler dependent. -fPIC works for 
> gcc.  For SunPRO its -KPIC -DPIC (or -kPIC -DPIC, can't recall if k is 
> upper or lower).
> 
> How many systems have different behavior for -fpic vs -fPIC?  I suspect 
> we'd always want -fPIC (for gcc that is).

I didn't know any of this.  I've gone ahead and added -fPIC to the 
Makefile for the plug-in.  Thanks!

Dean


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