Versioning mess proved!!!

[Philip Blundell]

In message < 00100212211500.29217@enzo.bigblue.local >, Franz Sirl writes:
>Maybe the hack is elsewhere already? It turns out that zlib is compiled 
>without -fpic by default, if compiled with -fpic everything is OK. Can't we 
>just refuse to load such broken stuff as shared library on non-x86 platforms? 
>And issue a loader warning on x86 and then delete support for this in 
>glibc-2.3? I believe a -DENABLE_X86_SHARED_LIB_HACKS would clean up our 
>shared lib loader (and probably ld too) from a lot of hacks?

We've had this discussion before.  Support for non-PIC shared objects is a 
desired feature, not an x86 hack.  It works on platforms like ARM and (I 
guess) Alpha, and I can't see any reason PowerPC should be different.

p.