Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:48:56 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> Subject: Re: some broken ports? Message-ID: <200406040948.57120.peter@wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <1086323628.48282.23.camel@server.mcneil.com> References: <1086323628.48282.23.camel@server.mcneil.com>
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On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:33 pm, Sean McNeil wrote:
> Am I missing something? Is libtool suppose to handle this and isn't?
> I cannot get several ports to compile without adding the following
> snip of code to the Makefile for each:
>
> .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "amd64"
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-pic
> .endif
I believe the problem is that libtool's test isn't adequate and it
arrives at the conclusion that it is possible to use non-pic binaries
in shared objects when in fact it just didn't test enough cases. I
don't know my way around its internals well enough though.
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Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
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