Everyone with a luarock that makes a .so needs to add -fPIC?

[Zed Shaw <zed.shaw@...>]

Hi everyone,

It seems many linux distros have been changing how they handle .so
files such that *all* .so files have to be compiled with -fPIC.  I
currently have this in my /etc/luarocks/config.lua :

variables.CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC"

Which seems to work, but sometimes people have their own Makefile which doesn't.

I believe people need to add -fPIC to all .so builds on Linux, and
maybe other platforms from now on.

Thanks,

Zed