Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:10:11 -0600 From: Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org> To: Tijl Coosemans <tijl@FreeBSD.org>, Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r433767 - in head: archivers/fastjar audio/audiere biology/p5-AcePerl comms/libfec devel/dcmtk devel/p5-subversion devel/py-ode games/abuse_sdl games/quake2-relay graphics/py-soya3d lan... Message-ID: <1486771811.2623949.877399408.0B6A1AA4@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <20170210152955.197774a6@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> References: <201702091853.v19IrCxs010112@repo.freebsd.org> <20170210152955.197774a6@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org>
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2017, at 08:29, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Mark Linimon > <linimon@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > Author: linimon > > Date: Thu Feb 9 18:53:12 2017 > > New Revision: 433767 > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/433767 > > > > Log: > > Add -fPIC to various ports to enable them to build on armv6. > > Sigh, the suggestion to "recompile with -fPIC" that some compilers make > should be ripped out of them temple of doom style. None of you seem to > really understand what it does. Your brains stop working and you just > follow it blindly. > > Go ahead, proof me wrong, I dare you guys. Pick one of the build errors > and explain to me what is going wrong and how adding -fPIC to the global > CFLAGS fixes it, without looking at any manpages of course. > Could you provide some guidelines or documentation to help people solve this problem correctly if adding -fPIC is not correct? I certainly wouldn't understand how to fix it or why this has any affect. -- Mark Felder ports-secteam & portmgr member feld@FreeBSD.org
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