[OpenAFS-devel] YDL 5.0.2... it gets weirder

[Russ Allbery]

Atro Tossavainen <atro.tossavainen+openafs@helsinki.fi> writes:

> I don't remember having to do anything special to get it to work on
> YDL 2.3.  It was an earlier version of OpenAFS, of course.

Interesting.  My impression was that non-PIC code in shared libraries had
been broken on every platform other than i386 for quite a while.  It may
be that PPC still allows it in some circumstances.

> Is there a reason why the libraries aren't being built PIC in any case?

Derrick's, mostly, plus no one has really had time to work on the build
infrastructure.

The obvious long-term goal is to standardize the shared library API and
then create real shared libraries, but there's a lot of code cleanup
hidden behind that.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>