On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Dewayne Geraghty <dewaynegerag...@gmail.com > wrote:
> I understand the value of fPIC for shareable libraries but I'm a little > confused as to why libcrypt.a requires -fPIC; which BTW does enable both > python, perl and others to build cleanly. > Both perl and python load crypto support as shared objects associated with their respective loadable modules. As such, you can't link non-PIC static objects into those shared objects on amd64 (although it works, pretty much by accident, on i386 32-bit). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
