cvs commit: ports/japanese/xdtp Makefile

Volker Stolz stolz at i2.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
Thu Oct 20 01:24:58 PDT 2005


On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:13:05AM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > >   . compile with -fPIC, this fixes build on amd64
> > > 
> > > Please don't pessimize all architectures like this.  You shouldn't
> > > even be pessimizing all files on amd64 with this flag, only those that
> > > need them.
> > 
> > Is this really such a strong pessimisation?
> > http://www.ukuug.org/events/linux2002/papers/pdf/dsohowto.pdf
> > "How To Write Shared Libraries" claims that this is almost a non-issue.
> > (Please rub my nose the archives I missed any discussion about the pros/cons.)
> 
> I don't know how much of an issue it is, but there's no reason not to
> do it correctly.

Increasing the number of conditionals in a port is another form of
pessimisation in my book. Maybe this could be done globally for CFLAGS on amd64?
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