Created by Thorsten Heit (thorsten@wurzelausix.cs.uni-sb.de) on Wednesday, April 8, 1998 6:34:28 AM PDT Additional Details : gcc doesn''t compile the c files with "-fpic" so the creation of a shared library results in an internal compiler error (only seen on Sparc/Linux; not on x86/Linux) Fix: --- ns/config/Linux.mk.orig Tue Mar 31 04:06:52 1998 +++ ns/config/Linux.mk Wed Apr 8 15:16:42 1998 @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ PORT_FLAGS = -D_POSIX_SOURCE -D_BSD_SOURCE -DSW_THREADS -DNEED_ENDIAN_H -DNEED_GETOPT_H -DNEED_IOCTL_H -DUSE_NODL_TABS -DHAVE_SIGNED_CHAR -DNEED_SYS_TIME_H -DHAVE_SYS_BITYPES_H -DNEED_UINT_T PDJAVA_FLAGS = -mx128m -OS_CFLAGS = $(PLATFORM_FLAGS) $(PORT_FLAGS) $(MOVEMAIL_FLAGS) +OS_CFLAGS = $(DSO_CFLAGS) $(PLATFORM_FLAGS) $(PORT_FLAGS) $(MOVEMAIL_FLAGS) LOCALE_MAP = $(DEPTH)/cmd/xfe/intl/linux.lm EN_LOCALE = C Updated by Wan-Teh Chang (wtc@netscape.com) on Friday, April 24, 1998 12:13:29 PM PDT Additional Details : Assigned bug to Brian Ostrom <briano@netscape.com>. Added myself to the CC list. Brian: we should use -fPIC instead of -fpic. ns/nsprpub/config/Linux.mk uses -fPIC. -fPIC allows you to have large-displacement branches. Updated by Brian Ostrom (briano@netscape.com) on Tuesday, July 14, 1998 5:42:04 PM PDT Additional Details : I think this is fixed now. I added -fPIC to the compile line for all Linux processor-variants. It doesn't seem to hurt anything to do so. We'll see.

these bugs are closed but have no resolution. reopening...

marking as fixed.

my research suggests that this was fixed no later than http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvsblame.cgi?file=mozilla/configure.in&rev=1.59&mark=127#124 nov 16 '98