Re: pthread stack on FreeBSD WAS: HEAD doesn't cope with libraries

Tom Lane wrote:
> "Jim C. Nasby" <jnasby@pervasive.com> writes:
> 
>>Unfortunately, it looks like the allow_non_pic_in_shlib setting broke
>>platypus: http://lnk.nu/pgbuildfarm.org/3l3.pl
> 
> 
>>If I back that part of the patch out, playtypus works fine.
> 
> 
> So what's different between platypus and the machines where it works?
> We might need a version check or something ...

platypus is amd64, not x86.  AFAIK, amd64 does not allow non-PIC code to 
be mixed with PIC code in the same object, whereas it's just fine for 
x86.  In NetBSD pkgsrc, we've had to fix a lot of software that makes 
this same assumption.
Cheers,
-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>