Re: [PATCH] Introduce Git.pm (v3)

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Petr Baudis [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

Also, is there any real problem with just using -fPIC?

Personally, not really, but I consider it a workaround having to
compile with -fPIC (being able to compile with -fPIC is a
feature).

Doesn't it have performance implications to use -fPIC when you
do not have to?

By the way, you also need to adjust the testsuite so that it
finds the Perl modules from freshly built tree before
installing.  I think (but haven't checked yet) the stuff written
in Python does that already, so you might want to mimic it.

So what was being compiled was a shared Git.so.

32bit x86 is on of the few architectures that allows you to build
a .so without compiling with -fPIC.  

The question is why are we building with a .so?

Eric