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In article <4hsemp$ch7@winx03.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de>,
Frank Hofmann <hofmann@cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
>According to the gcc 2.7.2 readme, there should be support for shared
>libraries and position independent code on HP/UX 9.

There is; it works fine for me under HP-UX 9.01 & 10.01.

> But the following
>extremely simple example gives incorrect output with our gcc installation

You should have included the output it generates, to illustrate your point.

>Is this a (perhaps known ?) gcc problem or is our installation screwed up ?

I would tend to believe that something is wrong with your installation;
I've had no problems with gcc 2.7.2 under HP-UX, and I've built lots of stuff
with it that requires position independent code (eg perl5).

>Are there any special procedures to follow during build to get a gcc binary
>that supports pic on HP/UX ?

I built gcc with GNU as; this is necessary for gdb support.  Perhaps it is
also a (undocumented?) requirement for PIC support.

>In fact, I fell over this trying to build zlib 0.99 - it doesn't work with
>our version of HP's cc (which I normally use for shared libs), so I tried
>gcc which creates working output if not using '-fPIC/-fpic'...

Does `ld -b' complain about the object files generated by gcc?

Tim
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