[arch-dev-public] [signoff] readline-6.0.004-1

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sat Aug 1 06:31:39 EDT 2009


Andreas Radke wrote:
> Am Sat, 01 Aug 2009 20:04:19 +1000
> schrieb Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
>
>   
>> bump patch level, use PIC on x86_64 (FS#15634)
>>
>> Signoff both
>>
>> Allan
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Usually we try to use -fPIC only for the corresponding lib not for the
> whole build. Is there no way only to build the static lib with -fPIC on
> x86_64? Look out for a Makefile patch or sed hack.
>   

The only excessive -fPIC here may be libhistory.a.  The both shared libs 
are built by default with -fPIC anyway.  I judged this not worth the 
concern...

Allan






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