On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 04:51:16PM +0000, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 01:33:11PM +0100, Joost Yervante Damad wrote:
> > I think compiling with -fPIC by default on the amd64/x86_64 arch
> > would be a good start to making it more usable for embedding.
> I think this is also a very good idea.

Seconded.

> We went through this already with libcamlrun.a:
> http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3866

Just to clarify a bit more for who did not follow that bug: what we did
there was not precisely what Joost asked for (i.e. build libasmrun.a
with -fPIC). Rather the patch offers two different libraries:
libcamlrun.a (no -fPIC) and libcamlrun_shared.so (-fPIC). The reason was
a performance penalty in using the -fPIC version.

Both in Debian and Fedora package you now have both libraries.

That said, I share Rich's suggestion: please file a bug (with patch
would be even better :)), that enable building 2 different versions of
libcamlrun, one built with -fPIC, the other as it is now.

Cheers.

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