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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, 'Kris Kennaway' <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject: Re: -fPIC for a port that is just a library on amd64?
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:57:32PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>=20
> >>=20
> >> It's just compiling a static object (a libxdiff.a).
> >>=20
> >> I just submitted a patch to the port that if ${MACHINE} =3D=3D amd64 I
> >> do the CFLAGS+=3D -fPIC but I'm not sure that's acceptable to you
> >> folks on portmgr.=20
> >=20
> > How is this object used?  Is it really supposed to be static?
> >=20
> > Kris
>=20
> I was going by the port which did NOT configure it with --enable-shared.
>=20
> It appears to build a shared object if I configure it with --enable-share=
d.
>=20
> I didn't look at the history of the port.  It's currently a ports@ port, =
and
> the PR I sent (ports/96062)
> has me grab maintainership.
>=20
> If you want me to, I can update it to build shared, but I need to test it
> some.

OK, but you didn't answer my question :-)

Kris

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