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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Johan Jansson <johanjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 11:51:10AM +0200, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > Is the -fPIC compiler flag essential? It breaks cygwin. If it's needed, I
> can
> > make changes for cygwin.
> > 
> > Garthing 
> > 
> > 
> 
> The code must be compiled with -fPIC on AMD64, otherwise shared
> libraries cannot be generated (right now this is only needed for
> PyDOLFIN). So it's only essential for AMD64 (which is disjoint from
> cygwin as far as I can see). It would be great if cygwin could be
> detected though and -fPIC disabled.

Cywin is already detected in configure.ac in order to add cygwin-specific flags
to CXXFlAGS. Is it possible to disbale a flag without redefining CXXFLAGS?

Garth 

> 
>   Johan
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