[vlc-devel] commit: Remove dead autoconf tests ( Rafaël Carré )

[Pierre d'Herbemont]

On Jun 3, 2008, at 8:28 AM, git version control wrote:

> vlc | branch: master | Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org> | Tue Jun   
> 3 01:50:37 2008 +0200| [e81f8e4ca21f28b3449b8922b6b81e12c1e56a4b]
>
> Remove dead autoconf tests
>
>> http://git.videolan.org/gitweb.cgi/vlc.git/?a=commit;h=e81f8e4ca21f28b3449b8922b6b81e12c1e56a4b
> ---
>
> configure.ac |  226  
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 226 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
> index 889e203..1b72e10 100644
> --- a/configure.ac
> +++ b/configure.ac
> @@ -1015,16 +1015,6 @@ if test "${ac_cv_c_omit_frame_pointer}" !=  
> "no"; then
>     CFLAGS_OPTIM_NODEBUG="${CFLAGS_OPTIM_NODEBUG} -fomit-frame- 
> pointer"
> fi
>
> -dnl Check for -mdynamic-no-pic
> -dnl AC_CACHE_CHECK([if \$CC accepts -mdynamic-no-pic],
> -dnl     [ac_cv_c_dynamic_no_pic],
> -dnl     [CFLAGS="${CFLAGS_save} -mdynamic-no-pic"
> -dnl      AC_TRY_COMPILE([],,ac_cv_c_dynamic_no_pic=yes,  
> ac_cv_c_dynamic_no_pic=no)])
> -dnl AS_IF([test "${ac_cv_c_dynamic_no_pic}" != "no"], [
> -dnl     VLC_ADD_CFLAGS([builtin],[-mdynamic-no-pic])
> -dnl     VLC_ADD_CFLAGS([libvlc],[-mdynamic-no-pic])
> -dnl ])

This one looks suspicious. -mdynamic-no-pic is used on darwin to  
produce optimized non-pic code for non shared library. You could  
probably turn that on by default on darwin target, or only check for  
it if we are building for darwin.

Pierre.