-fpic produces undesirable semantics in Darwin.
-Fred
Index: Scripting/perl/perl/Configure
diff -u Scripting/perl/perl/Configure:1.1.1.6
Scripting/perl/perl/Configure:1.6
--- Scripting/perl/perl/Configure:1.1.1.6 Mon Jul 16 14:19:05 2001
+++ Scripting/perl/perl/Configure Mon Jul 16 18:34:29 2001
@@ -6996,6 +6996,7 @@
esac
;;
*) case "$osname" in
+ darwin) dflt='none' ;;
svr4*|esix*|solaris|nonstopux) dflt='-fPIC' ;;
*) dflt='-fpic' ;;
esac ;;