Re: updating ebuilds for alpha, incude -fPIC.

Sigurd Stordal wrote:	[Wed Jun 25 2003, 07:24:16AM EDT]
> I've seen for ebuilds like xfree 4.3, that there is no -fPIC in the
> allowed cflags, this makes sense for x86, but if I have understood
> right, it's nearly a requirement for the alpha architecture.
> Shouldn't there be an automatic "if arch=alpha then allow cflags =
> -fPIC" or something similar. It would have helped a lot to have it
> embedded in all ebuilds, so you not compile for some hours and the get
> a gp_allocation error.

Tavis is really better equipped to answer this question, but my
understanding is that -fPIC exacts a performance penalty, even though
it's needed by many ebuilds on alpha.  Our approach so far has been to
fix ebuilds as we discover they're broken, rather than to apply -fPIC
globally.  If that approach works, then it shouldn't be necessary to fix
the allowed CFLAGS.

Aron

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