When trying to emerge x11-misc/rss_glx, the compile phase fails if the -fPIC flag is set in CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf. Would it be possible to change the ebuild to remove this specific flag?
i've filtered it in the 0.7.x ebuilds but i'd suggest you remove -fPIC from CFLAGS since we dont support it
Gentoo does not support -fPIC? That is news to me. Is this a new policy started just now? This flag is necessary for prelinking to work and if we don't support it, we need to remove prelink from the Portage tree since it relies on having the ebuilds compiled with the Position Indepedent Code flag set so it can pre-calculate the load position rather than having the dynamic linker do that during startup of the application. If we don't support -fPIC then it has some serious implications.
we dont support users setting fpic ... we let the packages do it themselves ... there was quite a large discussion this sometime ago, i dont have it in my mailbox any longer so i cant quote it ... but it's why you wont find the 'pic' USE flag in portage anymore
