Re: [ft-devel] [freetype2] master 3ec6465: Explain how to build a PIC-enabled version of FreeType.

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Yeah, but I don't know how to call this BREW stuff correctly.  It
>> seems to be related to the SDK available from
>> 
>>   https://developer.brewmp.com
>> 
>> I guess that older versions (or even the current one?) have this
>> restriction.
>> 
>> So maybe
>> 
>>   s/FT_CONFIG_OPTION_PIC/FT_CONFIG_OPTION_BREWMP/
>> 
>> is helpful?  Or are there other compilers with that need this
>> functionality?
> 
> Probably explaining first why such an option is considered at all
> would be helpful.  For instance compilers/linkers for Windows
> platform don't support PIC mode at all and that has never been a
> problem.

Well, you participated in the relevant discussion in 2009...  It's a
matter of fact that not all tools support PIC, so just.

For people interested in this topic, please read

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Runtime_Environment_for_Wireless
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position-independent_code
  http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2009-01/msg00056.html

Reading the old stuff, I think that `FT_CONFIG_OPTION_PIC' *is* the
correct naming.  I've updated the docs to not talk about `PIC' but
`FT_CONFIG_OPTION_PIC' to avoid confusion.


    Werner