Date: Fri, 6 May 2005 11:31:55 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: FreeeBSD Ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: subversion-1.1.4 amd64/opteron -fPIC failure Message-ID: <7b52974e55181445351a5a71858fa148@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <427A5092.4040204@LogicX.us> References: <427A5092.4040204@LogicX.us>
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--Apple-Mail-5--352637712 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed On May 5, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Mike Schroll wrote: >> what is your thinking behind turning on PIC for all compiles of >> system and port? how do you expect the system to build at all? > > Seemingly most apps compiled on amd64 platform require -fPIC (and most > things will add it themselves?) > PIC generates position independent code. It totally unnecessary unless you are building a shared object, aka ".so" library file. I have yet to encounter *anything* that needs it on the amd64 platform other than the .so building which already specify that. Vivek Khera, Ph.D. +1-301-869-4449 x806 --Apple-Mail-5--352637712--
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