[Gdal-dev] compiling gdal from CVS on solaris

[Jeffery D. Collins]

On Thursday 07 October 2004 12:44 pm, Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> Jeffery D. Collins wrote:
> > I updated my local copy from CVS, configured without libtool, recompiled
> > and now everything works fine.  Thanks for the help!
>
> Jeff,
>
> OK, the only outstanding issue is why you needed to explicitly provide
> the -fPIC when libtool is supposed to pick it up automatically where
> needed. I really have no idea how to dig into that, so I think we can just
> leave it unless you are really curious (or unless Alessandro has some
> ideas).

After configuring with the switch --without-libtool, it was no longer 
necessary to explicitly include -fPIC.  Now, it's just:

./configure --prefix=<whatever> --without-libtool
make install

I edited my previous response over a period of several hours and must not have 
proofread it carefully enough.  Sorry for the confusion!

--
Jeff