id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc
87	Perl and -fPIC	Joe Ciccone	clfs-commits@…	"Programs like xchat and gaim can't build their perl plugins (as shared libraries) because the DynaLoader.a library provided by perl is not linked with -fPIC.

This patch makes it so that the objects in DynaLoader.a are built with -fPIC.
http://cross-lfs.org/~jciccone/perl-5.8.8-fPIC-1.patch

I'd like to see this go into the book before RC4."	defect	closed	critical	CLFS Standard 1.0.0	BOOK	CLFS Standard 1.0.0	fixed	perl fPIC DynaLoader