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authorScott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com>2015-04-20 16:27:53 -0700
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2015-04-24 11:07:48 +0100
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ref-manual: Updates to ELF binary QA warning - review changes
Applied some review edits from Paul. Fixes [YOCTO #7630] (From yocto-docs rev: 0b7b3d36565da6745a13f5f6d17174e9d69c072e) Signed-off-by: Scott Rifenbark <scott.m.rifenbark@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
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@@ -467,6 +467,23 @@ can be found then it should be implemented. I can't find one at the moment.
467 </para> 467 </para>
468 468
469 <para> 469 <para>
470 Typically, the way to solve this performance issue is to
471 add "-fPIC" to the compiler command-line options.
472 For example, given software that reads
473 <link linkend='var-CFLAGS'><filename>CFLAGS</filename></link>
474 when you build it, you can add the following to your
475 recipe:
476 <literallayout class='monospaced'>
477 CFLAGS_append = " -fPIC "
478 </literallayout>
479 </para>
480
481 <para>
482 For more information on text relocations at runtime, see
483 <ulink url='http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/textrelocs.html'></ulink>.
484 </para>
485
486 <para>
470 &nbsp; 487 &nbsp;
471 </para> 488 </para>
472 </listitem> 489 </listitem>