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

[Derrick Brashear]

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On 10/16/07, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote:
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> Atro Tossavainen <atro.tossavainen+openafs@helsinki.fi> writes:
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> > 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.
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> 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.


It certainly worked on sparc32; I contributed a ld.so mod so my pam krb4
(linked against MIT libkrb.a and libdes.a) would work.

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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/16/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Russ Allbery</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:rra@stanford.edu">rra@stanford.edu</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Atro Tossavainen &lt;<a href="mailto:atro.tossavainen+openafs@helsinki.fi">atro.tossavainen+openafs@helsinki.fi</a>&gt; writes:<br><br>&gt; I don&#39;t remember having to do anything special to get it to work on<br>&gt; YDL 
2.3.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was an earlier version of OpenAFS, of course.<br><br>Interesting.&nbsp;&nbsp;My impression was that non-PIC code in shared libraries had<br>been broken on every platform other than i386 for quite a while.&nbsp;&nbsp;It may<br>be that PPC still allows it in some circumstances.
</blockquote><div><br>It certainly worked on sparc32; I contributed a ld.so mod so my pam krb4 (linked against MIT libkrb.a and libdes.a) would work. <br></div><br></div><br>

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