Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:58:49 +0100 (CET) From: <pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: amd64 and -fPIC Message-ID: <20060307195849.70339.qmail@web32714.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20060307192606.GA56153@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> ha scritto: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 08:07:12PM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com wrote: > > > > --- Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> ha scritto: > > > > ... > > > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > 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. > > > > > > > The problem is mixing static and shared libraries: this is perfectly legal > > Unjustified assertion. > I need it .. that's enough justification for me ;-). OK... not everyone has the namespace/library requirements I have (I have to use binaries that depend on different f77/f90 libraries with the same name), but even when the performance effect might be measurable, it's overall effect so minor I don't care. In any case this is not something that can be solved by the ports infrastructure or even FreeBSD: I agree the solution is NOT to build everything relocatable by default. > > and > > very often desired in most platforms except on amd64 > > and other modern > architectures. > An honest question: I would like to know what other modern architectures require this, I heard (but I'm not sure) that it's a consequence of the architecture running both 64 and 32 bit code so.. SPARC64 and ia64 need it too? Pedro. ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it
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