amd64 and -fPIC

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 06:00:05AM +0100, pfgshield-freebsd at yahoo.com wrote:
> --- Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> ha scritto: 
> 
> ....
> > 
> > The best solution is to make the port also build a shared version;
> > it's usually not that difficult to modify the makefile.  That way you
> > don't have to add nasty hacks.
> > 
> The problem is that it's too many ports. I just went through the terrible
> nightmare of building ten packages that use GNU configure (and in some cases
> don't like to pick CFLAGS from the ports Makefile). Yes the original packages
> are broken, but since they work on i386 no one else cares.
> 
> Right now I prefer to do this and let the author of the package know there's an
> "issue" on amd64.  

You asked for the best solution, not the easy but half-assed solution
:-)

Kris
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