Merge branch 'blead' of ssh://stevep@perl5.git.perl.org/gitroot/perl into blead

[p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git] / hints / linux.sh

diff --git a/hints/linux.sh b/hints/linux.sh
index b254310..c88f157 100644 (file)
--- a/hints/linux.sh
+++ b/hints/linux.sh
@@ -91,12 +91,22 @@ case "`${cc:-cc} -V 2>&1`" in
     # The -mp flag is needed to pass various floating point related tests
     # The -no-gcc flag is needed otherwise, icc pretends (poorly) to be gcc
     ccflags="-we147 -mp -no-gcc $ccflags"
+    # Prevent relocation errors on 64bits arch
+    case "`uname -m`" in
+       *ia64*|*x86_64*)
+           cccdlflags='-fPIC'
+       ;;
+    esac
     # If we're using ICC, we usually want the best performance
     case "$optimize" in
     '') optimize='-O3' ;;
     esac
     ;;
-*"Sun C"*)
+*" Sun "*"C"*)
+    # Sun's C compiler, which might have a 'tag' name between
+    # 'Sun' and the 'C':  Examples:
+    # cc: Sun C 5.9 Linux_i386 Patch 124871-01 2007/07/31
+    # cc: Sun Ceres C 5.10 Linux_i386 2008/07/10
     test "$optimize" || optimize='-xO2'
     cccdlflags='-KPIC'
     lddlflags='-G -Bdynamic'