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

[Larry Rosenman]

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.

LER


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