From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 09:49:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF44F16A4CE for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:49:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A214F43D1D for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:49:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@evilpete.dyndns.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C1D42A7EA for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:49:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 838ECE27E for ; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:49:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i54Gn1Ix099436; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:49:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@overcee.wemm.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by overcee.wemm.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i54GmvMx099435; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:48:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter) From: Peter Wemm To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:48:56 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.1 References: <1086323628.48282.23.camel@server.mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <1086323628.48282.23.camel@server.mcneil.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200406040948.57120.peter@wemm.org> cc: Sean McNeil Subject: Re: some broken ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 16:49:16 -0000 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. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5