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Date:      Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:06:39 +0200
From:      Volker Stolz <stolz@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, Emanuel Haupt <ehaupt@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/japanese/xdtp Makefile
Message-ID:  <20051020080639.GB73991@i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <20051019191435.GA26002@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200510191912.j9JJCruT013822@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051019191435.GA26002@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:14:36PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:12:52PM +0000, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> >   Modified files:
> >     japanese/xdtp        Makefile=20
> >   Log:
> >   . compile with -fPIC, this fixes build on amd64
>=20
> Please don't pessimize all architectures like this.  You shouldn't
> even be pessimizing all files on amd64 with this flag, only those that
> need them.

Is this really such a strong pessimisation?
http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002/papers/pdf/dsohowto.pdf
"How To Write Shared Libraries" claims that this is almost a non-issue.
(Please rub my nose the archives I missed any discussion about the pros/con=
s.)

Volker
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