On Friday 15 April 2005 10:29 am, Francesco Riosa wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > >as a reminder, NEVER utilize USE=pic in your package unless you know > > exactly > > [... snip of how much PIC is bad ]
PIC isnt bad ... people misusing USE=pic is bad > A clarification: It's ok to use it _only_ for _libraryes_ by default ? a good rule of thumb: shared objects should always be built with PIC > i.e > econf [...] --with-lib-ccflags="-fPIC" ive never seen/used --with-lib-ccflags configure option before, but i imagine it'll affect static libraries too right ? you dont want that the large majority of autotooled package gets PIC handling right so you shouldnt need this kind of crap ... -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
