some broken ports?

[peter at wemm.org (Peter Wemm)]

On Thursday 03 June 2004 09:33 pm, Sean McNeil wrote:
> Am I missing something?  Is libtool suppose to handle this and isn't?
>  I cannot get several ports to compile without adding the following
> snip of code to the Makefile for each:
>
> .if ${MACHINE_ARCH} == "amd64"
> CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--with-pic
> .endif

I believe the problem is that libtool's test isn't adequate and it 
arrives at the conclusion that it is possible to use non-pic binaries 
in shared objects when in fact it just didn't test enough cases.  I 
don't know my way around its internals well enough though.
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