A different buildworld failure

[Peter Wemm]

On Tuesday 23 March 2004 10:35 am, Bill Squire wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 05:08:51PM -0800, Peter Wemm wrote:
> > Argh!!   If you're trying to compile everything with -fPIC, then
> > you deserve what you get.
> >
> > Peter Wemm
>
> Putting '-fPIC -DPIC' in the CXXFLAGS= section causes no problems for
> me. Don't put it in the CFLAGS= section or you will probably be
> sorry. You must be selective where you use it in normal 'C'.

No, you're missing the point.  Do not put "-fPIC -DPIC" *anywhere* 
in /etc/make.conf.  Do not hack blindly hack ports to compile 
everything with -fPIC (including executables), and yell at anybody else 
who is doing it.

Fix the problem, rather than just plaster over the top of it.  That 
means finding out why the port is doing this in the first place?  Is it 
just because the author is clueless and accidently forgot that shared 
libraries need to be pic (and got away with it till now on i386).  Or 
they are doing it deliberately with --prefer-non-pic to libtool (and 
got away with it until now).  Or something just went wrong.

For some reason, autoconf/libtool seem to think that --prefer-non-pic 
works when they test it.  Maybe finding out why autoconf/libtool 
mistakenly believe this bogo-flag is usable would would help things a 
lot.
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Peter Wemm - peter at wemm.org; peter at FreeBSD.org; peter at yahoo-inc.com
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