Eye roll. -fPIC is always safe on SVR4 descendents.
If you want to have a flame war about CFLAGS, I suggest over declaring reentrancy for libc.
On Dec 16, 2014 6:49 PM, "Rob Kendrick" <
rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 05:01:11PM -0500, iggyvolz . wrote:
> I would recommend this either be the default or noted on the download/build
> instructions page. I know you can simply add MYCFLAGS but people trying to
> build for a 64-bit software (like I was a couple weeks ago) might not know
> about this. Just adding the line "If you are trying to build for 64-bit
> compatible software you will need to specify that by adding
> "MYCFLAGS=-fPIC" on the end of the build script.
While -fPIC is almost always want you want when building and linking
position-independant code, it is also almost never the right thing to
issue when you don't.
So no, this shouldn't be the default. People who know they need it are
in a position to add it.
B.
