On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Dewayne Geraghty 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
I'm trying to rebuild my local ports tree using libressl. Unfortunately
the linker is advising that I should build /usr/lib/libcrypt.a with -fPIC.
As its a security-related module, I would appreciate advise as to whether
this will/may cause a security issue?
The message, during the link phase, th