I have seen that, for example, opensuse and fedora are not forcing -fPIC for amd64 systems, also, I have manually edited mozcoreconf-2.eclass and re-emerged xulrunner and firefox and they seem to work ok Maybe it should be dropped or, for more testing, it could be appended conditionally depending in a variable to be set or not in ebuilds, letting a new revision bump of xulrunner and firefox to not get fPIC appended Thanks [ebuild R ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.0.5 USE="dbus gnome ipv6 java startup-notification -custom-optimization" 0 kB [ebuild R ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.0.5 USE="dbus gnome ipv6 java startup-notification xulrunner -bindist -custom-optimization -iceweasel -mozdevelop -restrict-javascript" LINGUAS="en_US es es_ES -af -ar -be -bg -bn -bn_IN -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en -en_GB -eo -es_AR -et -eu -fi -fr -fy -fy_NL -ga -ga_IE -gl -gu -gu_IN -he -hi -hi_IN -hu -id -is -it -ja -ka -kn -ko -ku -lt -lv -mk -mn -mr -nb -nb_NO -nl -nn -nn_NO -oc -pa -pa_IN -pl -pt -pt_BR -pt_PT 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That's needed to link against xulrunner or firefox I suppose. Maybe only the shared libs can be compiled with -fPIC.
no more forcing -fPIC, all issues have been resolved upstream for quite some time now.
