Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge does want to tell me...what?

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Tuesday, 5 December 2017 13:18:59 GMT Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> On 12/05/2017 05:23 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > I've been waiting for shouts of horror at that suggestion, but all's
> > quiet so I'll see if I can remember how to set -fpic in the environment
> > of palemoon. I'd have expected the ebuild do that though.
> 
> The upstream build system should already be using -fpic for any of its
> shared objects[0]:
> 
>   The most important recommendation is to always use
>   -fpic or -fPIC when generating code which ends up in
>   DSOs. This applies to data as well as code... When gcc
>   is used... It is therefore mandatory to compile all
>   code which can potentially end up in a DSO with
>   -fpic/-fPIC since otherwise the DSO might not work
>   correctly.
> 
> If -fpic is missing, it's probably a bug in some Makefile. The ebuild
> *can* fix that in the meantime, but it belongs upstream.
> 
> 
> [0] http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf

Ah. Right. I see now.

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Regards,
Peter.