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On Saturday 20 November 2004 8:17 am, Duncan wrote: |
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> No, not all archs follow x86 (or whatever arch rules you are assuming) |
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> rules. On some archs (amd64 comes to mind as that's what I use), -fPIC is |
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> required. Gentoo amd64 officially discourages it in make.conf, so as to |
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> hilite ebuilds which do NOT set it so they can be patched to do so, but |
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> it's required on the arch, regardless, whether it's configured in the |
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> source, in the ebuild, or in make.conf, so on some archs anyway, it's NOT |
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> wrong to have it in make.conf, hardened or not. |
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As robmoss pointed out, -fPIC is good only for shared stuff. |
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Shared things will break on x86_64 if they don't have -fPIC, but that's not a |
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x86_64-specific issue. x86 may not have visible problems with the lack of it, |
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but it is still an issue and the arch simply works around it (with some |
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inefficiency effects) |
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I don't think any of this is new info... I recall such a discussion a while |
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back explaining about -fPIC... |
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Luke-Jr |
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http://utopios.org/ |
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