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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: amd64 and -fPIC
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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

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