[Gdal-dev] gdal on amd64 needs -fPIC?

[Alessandro Amici]

Frank,

> I'm not sure why it is
> required for AMD 64bit; however, given that it is I am surprised that
> libtool doesn't already take care of it.
>
> In non-libtool builds we automatically try and add -fPIC and use it if it
> doesn't cause a problem.
>
> Alessandro, do we need to update our libtool to address this?

i'll have a look, however grep x86.64 says that at least some support is 
already present in the version of libtool in cvs (and released).

cheers,
alessandro