cvs commit: ports/japanese/xdtp Makefile

[Volker Stolz]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:14:36PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:12:52PM +0000, Emanuel Haupt wrote:
> >   Modified files:
> >     japanese/xdtp        Makefile 
> >   Log:
> >   . 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.)

Volker
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