octave doesn't build DSO's with -fPIC

[Ben Abbott]

On Thursday, December 06, 2007, at 09:46AM, "Jack Howarth" <howarth at bromo.msbb.uc.edu> wrote:
>   I noticed while building octave 2.9.18 on Leopard that, for
>Darwin at least, octave is not properly using the -fPIC compiler
>flag when creating objects for shared libraries. Linking non-PIC
>code into shared libraries can introduce obscure bugs and is
>discouraged. See the section "Optimization for DSO's" on page 15
>of http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf.
>                    Jack

Jack, the link you provided produced a "Page Not Found: 404" error for me.

I've been struggling a few problems with my builds on Tiger and Leopard. 

Two questions.

(1) Any chance this was also a problem for Tiger?

(2) How should this flag be introduced into the build process of Octave (I only ask because the link you provided did not work).

Ben