-fPIC for a port that is just a library on amd64?

[Larry Rosenman]

Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 12:57:32PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote:
>> Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> 
>>>> 
>>>> It's just compiling a static object (a libxdiff.a).
>>>> 
>>>> I just submitted a patch to the port that if ${MACHINE} == amd64 I
>>>> do the CFLAGS+= -fPIC but I'm not sure that's acceptable to you
>>>> folks on portmgr.
>>> 
>>> How is this object used?  Is it really supposed to be static?
>>> 
>>> Kris
>> 
>> I was going by the port which did NOT configure it with
>> --enable-shared. 
>> 
>> It appears to build a shared object if I configure it with
>> --enable-shared. 
>> 
>> I didn't look at the history of the port.  It's currently a ports@
>> port, and the PR I sent (ports/96062) has me grab maintainership.
>> 
>> If you want me to, I can update it to build shared, but I need to
>> test it some.
> 
> OK, but you didn't answer my question :-)
> 
> Kris

Updated diff to build shared submitted to pr ports/96062, and updated
ports/96065's shar to use the shared lib, which works perfectly. 

Thanks!
LER


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