[Nix-dev] Re: Policy on -fPIC and static libraries

[Peter Simons]

Hi Lluís,

 > I had a problem with the vxl packages, which I need with -fPIC for my
 > purposes in amd64. That implies a performance penality linking vxl
 > code for programs (not shared libraries), which is not important for
 > me.

can't you add a boolean argument to the vxl derivation that controls
whether position-independent code is built or not?

Take care,
Peter