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Date:      Wed, 27 Oct 2004 16:51:14 -0700
From:      Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/dbmail Makefile
Message-ID:  <1647BB29-2873-11D9-980B-000A95C705DC@chittenden.org>
In-Reply-To: <20041027233717.GA14072@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <200410272229.i9RMTJAx025431@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041027233717.GA14072@xor.obsecurity.org>

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>> seanc       2004-10-27 22:29:19 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD ports repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     mail/dbmail          Makefile
>>   Log:
>>   dbmail 2.0.0 needs -fPIC set in order to be sodomized by libtool on 
>> amd64.
>
> Actually only the shared libraries need -fPIC, it's a pessimization
> for everything else.  In fact, this port doesn't seem to be building
> shared libraries properly, and attempts to link static libraries
> against shared objects.  This is probably due to misuse of libtool.

Thanks for the info, I didn't realize there was a performance hit when 
enabling.  I will forward to the dbmail authors so they can fix their 
ways.  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden



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