[Bug 233707] www/firefox: fails to build with -fstack-protector-{strong,all} + -Wl,-z,nocopyreloc

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--- Comment #14 from Tijl Coosemans <tijl at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to Shawn Webb from comment #13)
-fPIE == -fPIC + some optimisations that only apply to executables. 
Executables can access their own global variables and functions directly. 
Libraries cannot (unless the variable is declared with protected visibility)
because a symbol with the same name can be defined in the executable or another
library and the symbol can be resolved to that one.  So you can compile
executables with -fPIC but you should not compile shared libraries with -fPIE.

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