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From: tar@hilbert.math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Problems compiling X11R4.12 with gcc 1.37.1 under SunOS 4.1
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Date: 19 Jul 90 10:34:51 GMT
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I'm trying to take advantage of the promised speedups produced by compiling
X11R4 "fixlevel" 12 on a Sun 3/80 running SunOS 4.1.  I'm using gcc 1.37.1.

gcc doesn't seem to grok the -pic option (wrapping done by me):

rm -f XAllowEv.o shared/XAllowEv.o
gcc -DNOSTDHDRS -fstrength-reduce -fpcc-struct-return -pic -c -DSHAREDCODE
  -DSUNSHLIB -O   -I../../. -I. -I../../. -I../.././X11      XAllowEv.c
gcc: unrecognized option `-pic'
mv XAllowEv.o shared/XAllowEv.o
gcc -DNOSTDHDRS -fstrength-reduce -fpcc-struct-return -c -DSUNSHLIB -O
  -I../..  /. -I. -I../../. -I../.././X11      XAllowEv.c

It compiles just fine the second time, but barfs the first time on "-pic".
What am I doing wrong?  I really don't want to give up shared X libraries.
Looking at the texinfo file for gcc doesn't offer much hope; it doesn't
mention support of -pic.

Please respond by email; I'll summarize to this group if asked.  Thanks
in advance for any help.

Tim
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