Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

[Paul de Vrieze]

On Tuesday 19 April 2005 00:04, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 18 April 2005 05:04 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote:
> > On Monday 18 April 2005 22:50, John Huttley wrote:
> > > I have been compiling everything recently with pic and pie.
> > > I thought this would be a prerequisite for effective use of "prelink".
> >
> > It's a prerequisite for prelinking shared libraries, afaik.
>
> correct

Even on x86 normal (non-prelinked) shared libraries should be built with 
-fPIC. They will however continue to function (albeight slower) when not 
built properly.

Paul

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