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Re: [ft-devel] [freetype2] master 3ec6465: Explain how to build a PIC-en
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Dmitry Timoshkov |
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Re: [ft-devel] [freetype2] master 3ec6465: Explain how to build a PIC-enabled version of FreeType. |
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Sun, 28 Aug 2016 18:54:46 +0800 |
Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:
> > What does mean? Shared libraries are definitely PIC code. Me not
> > understand.
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> As written:
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> Setting this macro is needed for systems that prohibit address
> fixups, such as BREW.
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> gcc or clang is capable of automatically doing address fixups, BREW is
> not.
>
> I've just add this piece of information.
This is confusing. PIC support is a toolchain feature and has nothing to do
with support from the source code. In fact, marking the source directory or
module as not PIC capable is confusing even more.
--
Dmitry.