On Tue, Dec 05, 2017 at 11:52:24AM +1100, Adam Carter wrote > > Is there a downside to adding -fPIC to CFLAGs? It seems to allow > everything to build and the system is working.
It'll slow down some programs/libraries. I wonder if you also need to enable "USE="pic"... [d531][waltdnes][~] grep -i ":pic - d" /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc app-arch/gzip:pic - disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly dev-util/electron:pic - Disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly games-emulation/yabause:pic - disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly games-fps/duke3d:pic - disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly media-libs/mesa:pic - disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly media-libs/x264:pic - disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly media-libs/x265:pic - Disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly media-libs/xvid:pic - disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly media-video/transcode:pic - disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly www-client/chromium:pic - Disable optimized assembly code that is not PIC friendly ...and also... [d531][waltdnes][~] grep -i ":pic - f" /usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc app-benchmarks/ramspeed:pic - Force shared libraries to be built as PIC (this is slower) app-emulation/open-vm-tools:pic - Force shared libraries to be built as PIC gnome-base/orbit:pic - Force libname-server-2 to be built as PIC; needed on hardened systems media-libs/libpostproc:pic - Force shared libraries to be built as PIC (this is slower). media-video/ffmpeg:pic - Force shared libraries to be built as PIC (this is slower) media-video/libav:pic - Force shared libraries to be built as PIC (this is slower). -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
