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From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 02:59:15 +0000 (UTC)
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Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: CFLAGS+= -fPIC per default?
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Hendrik Scholz <hscholz@raisdorf.net> wrote:

> I'm just fixing a bunch of ports reported broken on amd64 by bento.
> Most of these errors are related to a common linker problem:
> ld: foo.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared 
> object; recompile with -fPIC

Why are these shared objects not built with -fPIC in the first place?

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