Re: [ft-devel] [freetype2] master 3ec6465: Explain how to build a PIC-enabled version of FreeType.

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> wrote:

> >> > What does mean?  Shared libraries are definitely PIC code.  Me not
> >> > understand.
> >> 
> >> As written:
> >> 
> >>   Setting this macro is needed for systems that prohibit address
> >>   fixups, such as BREW.
> >> 
> >> gcc or clang is capable of automatically doing address fixups, BREW is
> >> not.
> >> 
> >> I've just add this piece of information.
> > 
> > This is confusing.  PIC support is a toolchain feature and has
> > nothing to do with support from the source code.  In fact, marking
> > the source directory or module as not PIC capable is confusing even
> > more.
> 
> Yeah, but I don't know how to call this BREW stuff correctly.  It
> seems to be related to the SDK available from
> 
>   https://developer.brewmp.com
> 
> I guess that older versions (or even the current one?) have this
> restriction.
> 
> So maybe
> 
>   s/FT_CONFIG_OPTION_PIC/FT_CONFIG_OPTION_BREWMP/
> 
> is helpful?  Or are there other compilers with that need this
> functionality?

Probably explaining first why such an option is considered at all would be
helpful. For instance compilers/linkers for Windows platform don't support
PIC mode at all and that has never been a problem.

-- 
Dmitry.