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From: alexmcwhirter@triadic.us
To: gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Jack Morgan <jmorgan@gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-sparc] -fPIC vs -fpic = Headaches
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2016 15:27:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <716202a344d702e496c97ecf840173c5@triadic.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a489c0c4-bfbb-1597-3e79-4f78d8f5800a@gentoo.org>

I've come across a fun little issue lately when building sparc64 
livecd's...

Some shared libaries need -fPIC to compile (libpcap for example), that's 
an easy fix. However, some libraries compile fine with -fpic (libkudzu 
for example). The issues is that shared libraries compiled with -fpic 
can cause issues later on depending on how they are included into a 
dependent application. An example is is hwsetup, which is compiled with 
-fPIC by default, but depends on libkudzu which is compiled with -fpic 
by default. This causes hwsetup to fail during compilation. This only 
seems to be a issue with sparc64 and not sparc, as sparc64 still has a 
lot of the same register restrictions that sparc has but with a higher 
memory footprint.

Im tempted to say that everything on sparc should be compiled with -fPIC 
over -fpic. This is how Debian does it (i believe they do it for every 
arch). The reason i say this is because there is no way to tell if a 
-fpic shared library will be a problem down the line in another 
application. Short of building the whole portage tree repeatedly.

Right now im just fixing them as i come across them, but i'd like to 
know anyones thoughts on this issue.



      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-04 19:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-28 23:06 [gentoo-sparc] Official SPARC64 Port Alex McWhirter
2016-01-28 23:26 ` [gentoo-sparc] " Mike Frysinger
2016-01-28 23:37   ` Alex McWhirter
2016-01-28 23:46     ` Mike Frysinger
2016-01-30  0:28 ` [gentoo-sparc] " Alex McWhirter
2016-01-30  0:44   ` Mike Frysinger
2016-01-30  0:55     ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-01  9:24       ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-01 17:44       ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-01 19:29         ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-01 20:24           ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-01 20:34             ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-01 20:51               ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-01 22:03                 ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-04 18:40                   ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-04 21:54                     ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-04 23:44                       ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-07 10:35                         ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-08 15:21                           ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-08 20:48                             ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-09  5:11                               ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-09  6:14                                 ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-13  9:26                                   ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-13 11:25                                     ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-13 17:32                                       ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-13 21:26                                         ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-14  0:44                                           ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-14 23:44                                             ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-15  2:13                                               ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-17 22:11                                                 ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-17 22:46                                                   ` Mike Frysinger
2016-02-17 22:52                                                     ` Alex McWhirter
2016-02-19  8:37                                                       ` Alex McWhirter
2016-03-11  3:53                                                         ` Alex McWhirter
2016-08-08 22:52                                                           ` Jack Morgan
2016-08-09  5:14                                                             ` alexmcwhirter
2016-08-10 18:45                                                               ` Jack Morgan
2016-08-31 17:26                                                                 ` alexmcwhirter
2016-09-01  0:46                                                                   ` Jack Morgan
2016-09-04 19:27                                                                     ` alexmcwhirter [this message]

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