Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 20:01:23 -0400 From: Tom St Denis <tomstdenis@gmail.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: shellreef+freebsd@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] LibTomCrypt on amd64 and -fPIC Message-ID: <bd0cb795050905170173c9bebb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050905235554.GA93379@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <e7ce49350508241918610b1f4c@mail.gmail.com> <20050905235554.GA93379@dragon.NUXI.org>
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On 9/5/05, David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 07:18:18PM -0700, shellreef@gmail.com wrote: > > To FreeBSD-amd64: Can we add -fPIC to make.conf? Are there any > > side-effects? (I'd prefer this as I use packages and would prefer to > > not compile from ports.) >=20 > No. -fPIC should only be used to build shared libraries. Not every > since piece of code compiled for AMD64. If the library doesn't build without -fPIC it's because they're using a custom compiler. I've built LTC on 4.0.1, 3.4.4, 3.3.6 and 2.96 boxes [it isn't stable on 4.01, 3.3.6 but it at least builds]. Tom
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