On Sun, Sep 18, 2005 at 05:28:44PM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > Policy 10.2: "The shared version of a library must be compiled with > -fPIC". > This is a "must", but I couldn't find where the requirement comes from > (I only checked the changelog). > I'm currently trying to resolve Debian bug #268603 where mpeg2dec is > built with -fPIC on i386 only. As far as I understood it, -fPIC is a > 10% performance improvement on i386 only, and a much smaller > improvement on most other arches because they usually have more > registers. I also have read that -fPIC is borken on some !i386 arches. > Would someone please sched some light on the origins of this > requirement? If this requirement is only to save memory in most cases, > would it be reasonable to permit building with -fPIC by changing this > "must" in a "should"? I think Marco's comments are quite correct here. We should not be reducing the "must" to a "should", so much as we should be clarifying the scope of the "must" rule; otherwise we'll just get maintainers wantonly disabling -fPIC on i386 on the grounds that it's "faster", without regard for the memory tradeoff. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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