[CMake] -fPIC with executables
Brad King
brad.king at kitware.com
Tue Oct 27 14:43:24 EDT 2009
James Bigler wrote:
> I noticed in some commit message to CMake a while ago that -fPIC was
> removed from executable compilation.
>
> Would anyone care to comment on why this is? I must admit I thought it
> wouldn't hurt it to have it compiled with that flag.
It's unnecessary, and is actually a Debian policy violation.
See here:
http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=9659
-Brad
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