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From: Francesco Riosa <francesco@×××××××××.it>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 17:30:16
Message-Id: 425FFA36.8020605@pnpitalia.it
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2
3 >On Friday 15 April 2005 10:29 am, Francesco Riosa wrote:
4 >
5 >
6 >>Mike Frysinger wrote:
7 >>
8 >>
9 >>>as a reminder, NEVER utilize USE=pic in your package unless you know
10 >>>exactly
11 >>>
12 >>>
13 >>[... snip of how much PIC is bad ]
14 >>
15 >>
16 >
17 >PIC isnt bad ... people misusing USE=pic is bad
18 >
19 >
20 received.
21
22 >
23 >
24 >>A clarification: It's ok to use it _only_ for _libraryes_ by default ?
25 >>
26 >>
27 >
28 >a good rule of thumb:
29 >shared objects should always be built with PIC
30 >
31 >
32 >
33 >>i.e
34 >>econf [...] --with-lib-ccflags="-fPIC"
35 >>
36 >>
37 >
38 >ive never seen/used --with-lib-ccflags configure option before, but i imagine
39 >it'll affect static libraries too right ? you dont want that
40 >
41 >the large majority of autotooled package gets PIC handling right so you
42 >shouldnt need this kind of crap ...
43 >-mike
44 >
45 >
46 fast grepping on "configure" show code for -fPIC utilization --> I must
47 see how to change the ebuilds my worryes goes to amd64 ... will see
48
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