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Date:      Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:38:53 -0500
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Mikhail Teterin <mi+mxe@aldan.algebra.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, gnome@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: While we discuss libtool (-fpic vs. -fPIC)
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On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:35:12PM -0500, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> ? ??, 2006-02-28 ? 16:31 -0500, Kris Kennaway ????:
> > In fact I'd say none will (except those that might break by having it
> > defined unexpectedly), because any port that needs to define -DPIC
> > that in order to conditionally compile PIC code must already be doing
> > so, or it'd be broken out of the box.
>=20
> Well being 100% correct is better, than being 99.99% correct.

Yes, but:

> As I said,
> these things aren't worth the trouble of chasing individual ports, but
> making something like libtool DTRT is a good idea.
>=20
> This includes both, `-fpic' and `-DPIC' flags.

As I argued, spamming in -DPIC everywhere with libtool is at best a
NOP and at worst may break ports that expect it to be undefined for
whatever reason.

The defaults are fine..

Kris

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