From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2025 20:07:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 02/18] make: add -fPIE flag
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In-Reply-To: <CAH=ZcbAOBnEVfyNy_4hdpe_dvsqDxsKVTcvurJz_iUWiqOzG3g@mail.gmail.com>

Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> writes:

> I was trying to get the rust compiler to link against libgit.a. Both
> Meson and Makefile produce libgit.a. No changes were to meson.build
> were necessary for that to work, but but with Makefile I would get
> errors like:
> relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a
> PIE object; recompile with -fPIE

This sounds like a workaround that is somewhat platform and compiler
specific limitation, at least to me.  Does this need to be conditional
and if so on what?

Thanks.