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Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 16:55:54 -0700
From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] LibTomCrypt on amd64 and -fPIC
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:18:18PM -0700, shellreef@gmail.com wrote:
> To FreeBSD-amd64: Can we add -fPIC to make.conf? Are there any
> side-effects? (I'd prefer this as I use packages and would prefer to
> not compile from ports.)

No.  -fPIC should only be used to build shared libraries.  Not every
since piece of code compiled for AMD64.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)