FreeBSD Port: subversion-1.1.4 amd64/opteron -fPIC failure

[Vivek Khera]

On May 5, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Mike Schroll wrote:

>> what is your thinking behind turning on PIC for all compiles of 
>> system and port?  how do you expect the system to build at all?
>
> Seemingly most apps compiled on amd64 platform require -fPIC (and most 
> things will add it themselves?)
>

PIC generates position independent code.  It totally unnecessary unless 
you are building a shared object, aka ".so" library file.

I have yet to encounter *anything* that needs it on the amd64 platform 
other than the .so building which already specify that.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
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