[FFmpeg-devel] MinGW-w64 x86_64 spams warning: -fPIC ignored for target

[Gianluigi Tiesi]

Hi,

By looking at configure script the code for PIC detection checks if
__PIC__, __pic__ or PIC are defined (on linux only when passing shared)

mingw-w64 on x86_64 targets always defines __PIC__ and __pic__
but warns when passing -fPIC as gcc option:
warning: -fPIC ignored for target (all code is position independent) [enabled by default]

the resulting compilation is somehow unreadable (each gcc call has a warning printed)

I've changed configure using this check:

if test $target_os != "mingw32"; then
    check_cpp_condition stdlib.h "defined(__PIC__) || defined(__pic__) || defined(PIC)" && enable pic
fi

but is obiviously ugly

do you known a better solution? using a flag filter looks like an overkill to me

mingw from debian/sid
gcc version 4.6.3 (GCC) 

Regards

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