Mike Frysinger wrote:

>On Friday 15 April 2005 10:29 am, Francesco Riosa wrote:
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>>Mike Frysinger wrote:
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>>>as a reminder, NEVER utilize USE=pic in your package unless you know
>>>exactly
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>>[... snip of how much PIC is bad ]
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>PIC isnt bad ... people misusing USE=pic is bad
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received.

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>>A clarification: It's ok to use it _only_ for _libraryes_ by default ?
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>a good rule of thumb:
>shared objects should always be built with PIC
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>>i.e
>>econf [...] --with-lib-ccflags="-fPIC"
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>ive never seen/used --with-lib-ccflags configure option before, but i imagine 
>it'll affect static libraries too right ?  you dont want that
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>the large majority of autotooled package gets PIC handling right so you 
>shouldnt need this kind of crap ...
>-mike
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fast grepping on "configure" show code for -fPIC utilization --> I must
see how to change the ebuilds my worryes goes to amd64 ... will see

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