Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Compiling ethereal as PIE

Note: This archive is from the project's previous web site, ethereal.com. This list is no longer active.

Date Prev · Date Next · Thread Prev · Thread Next
Date Index · Thread Index · Other Months · All Mailing Lists
From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 16:11:24 +0200
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 03:44:39PM +0200, Radek Vokál wrote:
> Latest rawhide Fedora rpm includes the following patch, which finally
> makes ethereal pied. Also check specfile changes. This patch is tested
> against the latest SVN ethereal package. 

Sorry to be ignorant, but a quick search didn't help me to understand what
-fpic is good for. What is -fpic and what are the advantages?
In case we want to add this: Can you provide a patch to configure.in to
detect and use -fpic?

Thanks
      Joerg
-- 
Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.