Re: building with dietlibc fails on mips/mipsel

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Gerrit Pape wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> the runit package builds with the dietlibc by default and links its
> programs statically. This works for all other architectures the dietlibc
> is available for but fails on mips and mipsel due to a pic - no-pic
> linking conflict, please see the build log:

Without looking at the build log, you cannot mix pic and non-pic code
on mips and mipsel.  It should not be possible on other architectures
but is possible on some, unfortunately, and it is used, even more
unfortunately.

Regards,

	Joey

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