[GRASS5] [bug #2649] (grass) compilation error: gcc does not take -KPIC

[Paul Kelly]

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Request Tracker wrote:

> this bug's URL: http://intevation.de/rt/webrt?serial_num=2649
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> Subject: compilation error: gcc does not take -KPIC
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> Platform: Solaris2.X/Sparc
> grass obtained from: CVS
> grass binary for platform: Compiled from Sources
> GRASS Version: 5.7 CVS 10-5-04
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> I tried to update Grass 5.3 and 5.7 from CVS today after a LONG time, and 5.3 compiled fine, but 5.7 didn't.  Running make, gcc kept spitting out
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> "gcc: unrecognized option `-KPIC'"
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> This was never an issue before, and -KPIC isn't a flag when compiling 5.3.  What does it do?  How can I fix this?

-KPIC comes from the compile flags used for shared libraries. They are 
used on 5.3 if you pass the --enable-gmake=no option to configure. But 
actually if you tried this on 5.3 you wouldn't have got the error because 
I changed -KPIC to -fPIC for gcc on Solaris a few weeks ago.

Just this afternoon I applied the same change to 5.7 so if you update now 
and try again you should get a bit further. Please let us know how you get
on as the build doesn't get much testing on Solaris these days AFAIK.

Paul K