Re: gnome and GDK_USE_XFT

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, James Henstridge wrote:

> Not really.  It is just that x86 Linux allows you to link non 
> PIC-compiled object files into a shared library, while OSX doesn't (I 
> have heard that this also breaks for Itanium Linux and others).

Indeed, the ability to link non-PIC stuff into a shlib is x86-specific,
especially with recent gcc/binutils.

-- Elliot
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