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| author | hubertf <hubertf> | 2000-12-06 16:33:01 +0000 |
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| committer | hubertf <hubertf> | 2000-12-06 16:33:01 +0000 |
| commit | ccd824537123902376d16ae06ebd5cffed6c0452 (patch) | |
| tree | 586cafcd57b26e57e6f7537edc6480facced0f71 /sysutils | |
| parent | 1313e60040f44a6bc5464044569a2c7683eda7e9 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-ccd824537123902376d16ae06ebd5cffed6c0452.tar.gz | |
Complete last sentence, and mention that -fpic and -fPIC compiled objects
can't be mixed - the REAL reason for this pkg
Diffstat (limited to 'sysutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysutils/c++rt0/pkg/DESCR | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/sysutils/c++rt0/pkg/DESCR b/sysutils/c++rt0/pkg/DESCR index 2b753821c21..d830fbca4ad 100644 --- a/sysutils/c++rt0/pkg/DESCR +++ b/sysutils/c++rt0/pkg/DESCR @@ -1,7 +1,9 @@ -The default NetBSD/sparc /usr/lib/c++rt0.o is compiled -fpic. This -means it can only handle offsets up to a certain size, and can fail -to work in large programs. Compiling -fPIC allows larger offsets -and should permit large programs to function. +The default NetBSD/sparc /usr/lib/c++rt0.o is compiled -fpic. This means +it can only handle offsets up to a certain size, and can fail to work in +large programs. Compiling -fPIC allows larger offsets and should permit +large programs to function. As mixing object files compiled with -fpic +and -fPIC isn't allowed, the system c++rt0.o must be exchanged so that +-fPIC can be used everywhere. -This package allows most of pkgsrc on NetBSD/sparc systems before the -1.4.3 release (which already contains this fix). +This package allows most of pkgsrc to compile on NetBSD/sparc systems +which run an OS version prior to 1.4.3 (which already contains this fix). |