Hi All, I would like ask in the near future if folks wouldn't mind adding a feature to their Make/Configure/Build/Whatever to turn ON position independent code (PIC) by default. Some codes already have a --with-pic configure option and that is helpful. Other's don't have that option at all. But, as it turns out, most (if not all) the lib<whatever>.a files in /usr/local/itaps are not compiled with -fPIC. That means you cannot build a shared library linking against them and pretty much means I have to re-build everything there in order to link VisIt with those libs. So, I am making a pitch that a) folks add support for position independent code and b) that it gets turned ON by default. That way, whenever someone installs a lib, we'll be assured of getting a lib we can build shared libraries against. An alternative is to build shared libraries in addition to static. However, I believe that may be harder for folks as PIC is just an additional flag to compiler. This is NOT a tutorial-pressing need. It is just something I'd like to see if we can make start happening in Make/Configure/Build tools for our various pieces of software. Mark -- Mark C. Miller, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory email: mailto:[email protected] (M/T/W) (925)-423-5901 (!!LLNL BUSINESS ONLY!!) (Th/F) (530)-753-8511 (!!LLNL BUSINESS ONLY!!)