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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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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
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