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[Mark Felder]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2017, at 08:29, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Feb 2017 18:53:12 +0000 (UTC) Mark Linimon
> <linimon at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> > Author: linimon
> > Date: Thu Feb  9 18:53:12 2017
> > New Revision: 433767
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/433767
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add -fPIC to various ports to enable them to build on armv6.
> 
> Sigh, the suggestion to "recompile with -fPIC" that some compilers make
> should be ripped out of them temple of doom style.  None of you seem to
> really understand what it does.  Your brains stop working and you just
> follow it blindly.
> 
> Go ahead, proof me wrong, I dare you guys.  Pick one of the build errors
> and explain to me what is going wrong and how adding -fPIC to the global
> CFLAGS fixes it, without looking at any manpages of course.
> 

Could you provide some guidelines or documentation to help people solve
this problem correctly if adding -fPIC is not correct? I certainly
wouldn't understand how to fix it or why this has any affect.

-- 
  Mark Felder
  ports-secteam & portmgr member
  feld at FreeBSD.org