On Monday 05 February 2007, Luis Francisco Araujo wrote: > 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.
why not just build pic for everyone on x86 ? define "it'll hurt performance" ... of course you take a small penalty for code being PIC, but i dont exactly see smalltalk being such a performance hardcore language to justify making it special > 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? you would utilize the "pic" USE flag ... php does this because it, unlike smalltalk, is very performance critical, and so by default it builds as non-pic on x86 -mike
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