sys-libs/zlib/files/zlib-1.2.1-fPIC.patch


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--- zlib-1.2.1/configure
+++ zlib-1.2.1/configure
@@ -73,7 +73,12 @@
 
 if test "$gcc" -eq 1 && ($cc -c $cflags $test.c) 2>/dev/null; then
   CC="$cc"
-  SFLAGS=${CFLAGS-"-fPIC -O3"}
+  #SFLAGS=${CFLAGS-"-fPIC -O3"}
+  # the above is horribly wrong on a few archs where -fPIC should ALWAYS be
+  # used in the creation of shared libraries. without the following, the
+  # shared lib test will sometimes fail even when shared libs -can- be created.
+  SFLAGS=${CFLAGS-"-O3"}
+  SFLAGS="${SFLAGS} -fPIC"
   CFLAGS="$cflags"
   case `(uname -s || echo unknown) 2>/dev/null` in
   Linux | linux | GNU | GNU/*)