From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 12:04:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce Git.pm (v3)
Message-ID: <m1k678yt6m.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vejxgckq9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:

> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
>
>> Also, is there any real problem with just using -fPIC?
>
> Personally, not really, but I consider it a workaround having to
> compile with -fPIC (being able to compile with -fPIC is a
> feature).
>
> Doesn't it have performance implications to use -fPIC when you
> do not have to?
>
> By the way, you also need to adjust the testsuite so that it
> finds the Perl modules from freshly built tree before
> installing.  I think (but haven't checked yet) the stuff written
> in Python does that already, so you might want to mimic it.

So what was being compiled was a shared Git.so.

32bit x86 is on of the few architectures that allows you to build
a .so without compiling with -fPIC.  

The question is why are we building with a .so?

Eric