Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 00:04:14 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: amd64 and -fPIC Message-ID: <20060220050414.GA83102@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060220050006.91083.qmail@web32910.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060220043813.GA82552@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060220050006.91083.qmail@web32910.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 06:00:05AM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> ha scritto:=20 >=20 > .... > >=20 > > The best solution is to make the port also build a shared version; > > it's usually not that difficult to modify the makefile. That way you > > don't have to add nasty hacks. > >=20 > The problem is that it's too many ports. I just went through the terrible > nightmare of building ten packages that use GNU configure (and in some ca= ses > don't like to pick CFLAGS from the ports Makefile). Yes the original pack= ages > are broken, but since they work on i386 no one else cares. >=20 > Right now I prefer to do this and let the author of the package know ther= e's an > "issue" on amd64. =20 You asked for the best solution, not the easy but half-assed solution :-) Kris --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD+U3NWry0BWjoQKURApWmAKDo3EcO5E/A65V0RPozIstn8OW+MQCeN4bj dM376yVMNOIU6NsLk+vu2fI= =QNbP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX--
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