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Re: Ping: Cygwin libtool / assembler problem with -DPIC
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 03:29:10PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Gerrit wrote:
>
> PING!
>
> > Hello,
>
> > With GNU as PIC is not an noop, when -DPIC is used to invoke gas the
> > generated assembly is broken. I saw this problem with a
> > reautoconfiscated version of GMP. This may be unusual, but there was
> > libtool used to invoke gas.
What do you mean by ``the generated assembly is broken''? Please show the error
you encountered.
I built gmp-4.1.4 on Cygwin, and it passed all tests. I used the shipped
``configure'', but adding -DPIC is not a new libtool behavior.
There was a thread about this general topic awhile ago. That GMP actively uses
-DPIC to select the correct assembly came up:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libtool/2003-01/msg00060.html
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