On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:18:59 GMT Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/05/2017 05:23 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I've been waiting for shouts of horror at that suggestion, but all's > > quiet so I'll see if I can remember how to set -fpic in the environment > > of palemoon. I'd have expected the ebuild do that though. > > The upstream build system should already be using -fpic for any of its > shared objects[0]: > > The most important recommendation is to always use > -fpic or -fPIC when generating code which ends up in > DSOs. This applies to data as well as code... When gcc > is used... It is therefore mandatory to compile all > code which can potentially end up in a DSO with > -fpic/-fPIC since otherwise the DSO might not work > correctly. > > If -fpic is missing, it's probably a bug in some Makefile. The ebuild > *can* fix that in the meantime, but it belongs upstream. > > > [0] http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
Ah. Right. I see now. -- Regards, Peter.
