I'm trying to rebuild my local ports tree using libressl. Unfortunately the linker is advising that I should build /usr/lib/libcrypt.a with -fPIC. As its a security-related module, I would appreciate advise as to whether this will/may cause a security issue?
The message, during the link phase, that both python27 and perl 5.20 is sending is: /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libcrypt.a(crypt.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC /usr/lib/libcrypt.a: could not read symbols: Bad value cc: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) I understand the value of fPIC for shareable libraries but I'm a little confused as to why libcrypt.a requires -fPIC; which BTW does enable both python, perl and others to build cleanly. Regards, Dewayne _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
