Re: please drop whatever you're doing and add -fPIC to all your rockspecs.

[steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@...>]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had a look at luarocks some time ago for building lua packages for
> alpine linux but figured it was better do it without luarocks, partly
> because of this -fPIC business.

But it's not really luarocks' fault - if using the later versions. The
problem is that people wrap up their makefiles in rocks,
straightforward & lazy, and forget to put in -fPIC because it's _never
bothered them_ before.

Whereas, the builtin module type will use the correct flags.

steve d.