Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-19 Thread Paul de Vrieze
On Tuesday 19 April 2005 00:04, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Monday 18 April 2005 05:04 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > On Monday 18 April 2005 22:50, John Huttley wrote: > > > I have been compiling everything recently with pic and pie. > > > I thought this would be a prerequisite for effect

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-18 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Monday 18 April 2005 05:04 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Monday 18 April 2005 22:50, John Huttley wrote: > > I have been compiling everything recently with pic and pie. > > I thought this would be a prerequisite for effective use of "prelink". > > It's a prerequisite for prelinking s

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-18 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Monday 18 April 2005 22:50, John Huttley wrote: > I have been compiling everything recently with pic and pie. > I thought this would be a prerequisite for effective use of "prelink". It's a prerequisite for prelinking shared libraries, afaik. It's not needed for executables, so this shouldn't b

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-18 Thread John Huttley
Would someone please expand on this? perhaps a link if its documented elseware? I have been compiling everything recently with pic and pie. I thought this would be a prerequisite for effective use of "prelink". A minor hit in program speed would not concern me. Regards, John -- John Huttl

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-17 Thread Kevin F. Quinn
Mike Frysinger wrote: > as a reminder, NEVER utilize USE=pic in your package unless you know > exactly what it's for and you're sure you need it I figured this use flag should be used to ensure libraries are built as PIC (i.e. conform to the relevant ABI). This is a common problem on the media

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 15 April 2005 10:35 am, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Friday 15 April 2005 23:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Friday 15 April 2005 10:13 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > > On Friday 15 April 2005 16:07, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > > media-video/avidemux > > > > > > This is already rem

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Francesco Riosa
Mike Frysinger wrote: >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 misusin

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
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_ f

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Friday 15 April 2005 23:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Friday 15 April 2005 10:13 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > > On Friday 15 April 2005 16:07, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > media-video/avidemux > > > > This is already removed by patch on bug #89097.. I anyway think that this > > is my f

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Jan Brinkmann
On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 10:07:53AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > as a reminder, NEVER utilize USE=pic in your package unless you know exactly > what it's for and you're sure you need it ... a quick `grep -Rl ^IUSE=.*pic` > of the tree shows a bunch of ebuilds which appear to be misusing it: > ap

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Simon Stelling
Hi, Francesco Riosa wrote: > A clarification: It's ok to use it _only_ for _libraryes_ by default ? > i.e > econf [...] --with-lib-ccflags="-fPIC" > > Using it now and interested to know if it's plain wrong Shared objects should be built with -fPIC anyway, since a few arches require it and it ma

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 15 April 2005 16:23, Mike Frysinger wrote: > you have an execuse ... you havent taken the dev quiz yet which has a PIC > usage question ;) Well actually now I taken it :) but the patches where previous to that :P -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò http://wwwstud.dsi.unive.it/~dpetteno/ pgpS

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Francesco Riosa
Mike Frysinger wrote: >as a reminder, NEVER utilize USE=pic in your package unless you know exactly > [... snip of how much PIC is bad ] A clarification: It's ok to use it _only_ for _libraryes_ by default ? i.e econf [...] --with-lib-ccflags="-fPIC" Using it now and interested to know if it's

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Friday 15 April 2005 10:13 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 15 April 2005 16:07, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > media-video/avidemux > > This is already removed by patch on bug #89097.. I anyway think that this > is my fault (as for djvu and tvtime, probably). > Sorry about that. you

Re: [gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Friday 15 April 2005 16:07, Mike Frysinger wrote: > media-video/avidemux This is already removed by patch on bug #89097.. I anyway think that this is my fault (as for djvu and tvtime, probably). Sorry about that. -- Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò http://wwwstud.dsi.unive.it/~dpetteno/ pgpT1KCPj9

[gentoo-dev] USE=pic reminder

2005-04-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
as a reminder, NEVER utilize USE=pic in your package unless you know exactly what it's for and you're sure you need it ... a quick `grep -Rl ^IUSE=.*pic` of the tree shows a bunch of ebuilds which appear to be misusing it: app-admin/amanda app-text/djvu media-libs/guilib media-libs/libvisual medi