cvs commit: ports/mail/dbmail Makefile

Sean Chittenden sean at chittenden.org
Wed Oct 27 16:51:19 PDT 2004


>> seanc       2004-10-27 22:29:19 UTC
>>
>>   FreeBSD ports repository
>>
>>   Modified files:
>>     mail/dbmail          Makefile
>>   Log:
>>   dbmail 2.0.0 needs -fPIC set in order to be sodomized by libtool on 
>> amd64.
>
> Actually only the shared libraries need -fPIC, it's a pessimization
> for everything else.  In fact, this port doesn't seem to be building
> shared libraries properly, and attempts to link static libraries
> against shared objects.  This is probably due to misuse of libtool.

Thanks for the info, I didn't realize there was a performance hit when 
enabling.  I will forward to the dbmail authors so they can fix their 
ways.  -sc

-- 
Sean Chittenden



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