On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 5:58 PM, wrote:
> that's actually not the intended use of the PIC USE flag, we wanted it
> originally
> to enable configuring/compiling position independent code for packages where
> one
> wanted to make a tradeoff between speed/security (i think php was one such
> app,
>From what I can tell here, pic is nearly built in to amd64. It should
be used by default on amd64 and I think it has to be explicitly
disabled (ffmpeg). So, you can run -pic on all amd64 and get nearly
the same result as +pic on amd64.
-- Prometheanfire
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 15:39, Daniel Re
