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From: Pawel Kraszewski <Gentoo@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:35:12
Message-Id: 200609271732.52479.Gentoo@kraszewscy.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] First Impressions by Daniel Iliev
1 Dnia ¶roda, 27 wrze¶nia 2006 07:50, Daniel Iliev napisa³:
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4 > 1) I use CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -mfpmath=sse -msse -msse2 -msse3
5 > -m3dnow -mmmx -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fpic". Portage complains
6 > with *red letters* about the fpic flag. Every time I emerge something it
7 > says that "fpic breaks things", but I haven't met a single breakage so
8 > far. Is that a bug? Actually there was an ebuild which could not be
9 > compiled if mysql was compiled w/o "fpic". I'm not 100% sure but AFAIR
10 > it was dev-perl/DBD-mysql.
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12 That's what 'pic' USE flag is for...
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14 $ euse -i pic
15 global use flags (searching: pic)
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18 [+ C ] pic - Build Position Independent Code. Do not utilize this flag
19 unless you know what you're doing.
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22 "fpic breaks things". Trust Gentoo developers. They don't spread FUD. If they
23 say it breaks, it surely does. You just haven't been struck by it. Yet.
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