On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 00:15:25 -0400 Luis Francisco Araujo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello World! > > I want to ask for suggestions and opinions for the best way to handle > this bug: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158434 [textrels in smalltalk shared librart libgst.so] > I am usually very hesitant to add new use flags to the tree (unless > they are *really* necessary or imply a great advantage.) ; though i > am not sure here if anybody else would consider this a good > recommendation for handling textrels. In general, we would urge maintainers to default to no-textrels for shared libraries; normally the performance impact is negligible (often the performance is better, overall). It would be worth obtaining some real statistics before deciding. Note that textrels in shared libraries are pretty much an x86-only thing. amd64 in particular does not tolerate textrels in shared libraries (PIC is cheaper on amd64). > I was thinking more of a simple 'use hardened && myconf=" .. "' > specific line for this ebuild; but it's probably a good idea offering > to more developers the easy choice of this feature through a USE flag? I think 'use pic' would be more appropriate, because we're talking about whether we want position-independent code or not (but I defer to solar in these things). > If it looks enough useful for many people; then i think we can > proceed to implement it; if it will only be used by this ebuild; then > i am already against it ;-) -- Kevin F. Quinn
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