Re: Problem with /usr/lib/libcrypt.a when building perl/python with libressl

2016-02-29 Thread Brandon Allbery
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

Problem with /usr/lib/libcrypt.a when building perl/python with libressl

2016-02-29 Thread Dewayne Geraghty
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