Re: [gentoo-dev] Hardened USE flag

[Luis Francisco Araujo]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 05 February 2007, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote:
>> I am usually very hesitant to add new use flags to the tree (unless they
>> are *really* necessary or imply a great advantage.) ; though i am not
>> sure here if anybody else would consider this a good recommendation for
>> handling textrels.
>
> why not just build pic for everyone on x86 ?  define "it'll hurt
> performance" ... of course you take a small penalty for code being PIC, but i
> dont exactly see smalltalk being such a performance hardcore language to
> justify making it special
>
>> I was thinking more of a simple 'use hardened && myconf=" .. "' specific
>> line for this ebuild; but it's probably a good idea offering to more
>> developers the easy choice of this feature through a USE flag?
>
> you would utilize the "pic" USE flag ... php does this because it, unlike
> smalltalk, is very performance critical, and so by default it builds as
> non-pic on x86
> -mike

Thank everyone;

I will go with the pic USE flag option then.

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Luis F. Araujo "araujo at gentoo.org"
Gentoo Linux

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