Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 14:26:06 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: amd64 and -fPIC Message-ID: <20060307192606.GA56153@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060307190712.68220.qmail@web32713.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <20060307184210.GA33347@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060307190712.68220.qmail@web32713.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:07:12PM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: >=20 > --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> ha scritto:=20 >=20 > ... > > >=20 > > > That doesn't solve the problem, which is: the static library is > > > almost useless, and users might actually want or need to use the > > > static library. > >=20 > > Why do you say it's useless? The point of a static library is for > > static linking, and this works fine on amd64 or any other > > architecture. > >=20 >=20 > The problem is mixing static and shared libraries: this is perfectly legal Unjustified assertion. > and > very often desired in most platforms except on amd64 and other modern arc= hitectures. Kris --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEDd5OWry0BWjoQKURAlydAJ4ys6yovSBvaGOg3nkddEN+5xT68ACfTGJN JoL31Ab3onSvEcSy6kl+SyU= =/cOZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--
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