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From: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Subject: Re: [BUG] intel_drv.so fails to load
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 18:01:15 +0200
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Am 20.07.2012 17:10, schrieb Adam Jackson:
>
> autoconf bug!  Nice find.
>
>> I think the test for "-fPIC" support is fundamentally
>> broken and should be fixed. Or would it be better
>> to check for -v and --verbose in CFLAGS?
>
> It sounds like the test is broken, yeah.  Although I wonder how many other standard autoconf tests have this property.
>

A quick inspection shows that at least three tests share the same mechanism/problem.

cu,
  Knut