Re: [gentoo-alpha] ebuild update for Xorg-x11

[Aron Griffis]

Brian C. Parkhurst wrote:[Tue Oct 26 2004, 01:20:34PM EDT]
> I've found that the Xorg-x11 build on alpha a bit unstable..
> That is until I made a very minor modification to the ebuild file.
> I added an entry for alpha systems and ALLOWEDFLAGS to include -fPIC -DPIC
>
> >        alpha)  ALLOWED_FLAGS="${ALLOWED_FLAGS} -mtune -fPIC -DPIC" ;;

I don't get it... This just changes what you're allowed to pass in via
your own CFLAGS variable.  If xorg-x11 is unstable on alpha due to PIC
issues, then we need to fix the Makefiles to include -fPIC where
necessary.

OTOH, usually lacking -fPIC results in a build failure, not run-time
failures.  Are you sure this is what made the difference for you?

Regards,
Aron

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Aron Griffis
Gentoo Linux Developer