Re: -fPIC joy, lexcmp woes.

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 05:50:03PM -0800, Phil Carmody wrote:
> After much confusion, it appears that without the patch it alwas fails to
> build, and with the patch it builds cleanly, so -fPIC was the cure. However...

Well, I have managed to build PARI properly on a opteron running Debian,
and I don't recall having any problems. I expect to get access to the
box again sometime before the end of the year.

I wonder if your gentoo box is not configured with strange compiler
flags, since this bug normally only occur with Configure -g.

The problem you report is well-know and I will fix it soon.
See 
<http://pari.math.u-bordeaux.fr/archives/pari-dev-0210/msg00064.html>
for background.

It was supposed to be fixed together with the description system
but we forgot to do it.

Cheers,
Bill.