Bug 60683 – setting pic use-flag is missing in the prelink documentation

• Product: [OLD] Docs-user
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description John Herdy 2004-08-17 08:46:49 UTC]

According to grep pic /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc (pic - Build Position Independent Code. Needed for prelink or the hardened toolchain) the useflag pic is needed if you want to prelink.

It should be in the documentation to add this use-flag to /etc/make.conf and rebuild glibc

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 John Herdy 2004-08-17 08:52:09 UTC]

forgot to mention that gcc needs this use-flag also so the documentation also needs to mention rebuilding gcc and glibc after adjusting /etc/make.conf before proceeding with prelink.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-08-17 12:44:28 UTC]

pic is applied automatically to shared objects; users shouldnt have to put pic in USE or in CFLAGS

[Comment 3 John Herdy 2004-08-18 01:33:27 UTC]

cool, maybe it's an idea to change the description in use.desc a little or make a note in the prelink documentation.

For the record; is it also not necessary to compile glibc with USE=pic?

[Comment 4 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-08-29 05:51:48 UTC]

A note in the prelink docs? Like "you don't need to set pic even though the description sais so since it's done automatically" ? Looks kinda dumb to me :)

[Comment 5 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) 2004-09-09 05:04:12 UTC]

I'm marking this as WORKSFORME. The description isn't wrong - the PIC USE-flag is indeed needed, but it's on by default. It's not use.desc's task to go dictate what USE flags are automatically on. That's also rather impossible as this depends on the used profile.