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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:27:46 +0000 (UTC)
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Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
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Subject: Re: CFLAGS+= -fPIC per default?
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Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> wrote:

> I think it was Christian who asked why -fPIC was not the default
> and I think it's a good question.

No.  All shared libraries, dynamically loaded modules, and the like
should be built with -fPIC, independent of architecture.  If some
of them are currently not, then the respective ports are broken.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de