From owner-svn-ports-all@freebsd.org Sat Feb 11 00:10:13 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-ports-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65680CDA998; Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:10:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com (out4-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E1628AD; Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:10:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D6E120716; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:10:11 -0500 (EST) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute3.internal (MEProxy); Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:10:11 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=cc:content-transfer-encoding:content-type :date:from:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version:references :subject:to:x-me-sender:x-me-sender:x-sasl-enc; s=smtpout; bh=83 x78tJcLtDJ5lPv+1iHbX7Lsvg=; b=jArhG+z/7gi/dEOXnJzyjK8lU0LbWzokFs z2dSUU28JloBC/898rJgZ2IEmSNO/AIvxUIFEg1w4jCMhaIJsNr3ysqioSP5W28A xbDXy3PLmz7WL6EfBwkbX0CtQOkQ7OIELlJmd8Cn1x0LgdNQaX0H+PiQto7C1Wum vxVh/oSVs= X-ME-Sender: Received: by mailuser.nyi.internal (Postfix, from userid 99) id 5EC629EBA7; Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:10:11 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1486771811.2623949.877399408.0B6A1AA4@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Mark Felder To: Tijl Coosemans , Mark Linimon Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-4a450d19 Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 18:10:11 -0600 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... References: <201702091853.v19IrCxs010112@repo.freebsd.org> <20170210152955.197774a6@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> In-Reply-To: <20170210152955.197774a6@kalimero.tijl.coosemans.org> X-BeenThere: svn-ports-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the ports tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2017 00:10:13 -0000 On Fri, Feb 10, 2017, at 08:29, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Mark Linimon > 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