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    Always use -fPIC, not -fpic, when building shared libraries with gcc. · e9a3c047
    Tom Lane authored
    On some platforms, -fpic fails for sufficiently large shared libraries.
    We've mostly not hit that boundary yet, but there are some extensions
    such as Citus and pglogical where it's becoming a problem.  A bit of
    research suggests that the penalty for -fPIC is small, in the
    single-digit-percentage range --- and there's none at all on popular
    platforms such as x86_64.  So let's just default to -fPIC everywhere
    and provide one less thing for extension developers to worry about.
    
    Per complaint from Christoph Berg.  Back-patch to all supported branches.
    (I did not bother to touch the recently-removed Makefiles for sco and
    unixware in the back branches, though.  We'd have no way to test that
    it doesn't break anything on those platforms.)
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/20170529155850.qojdfrwkkqnjb3ap@msg.df7cb.de
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