[Libguestfs] [PATCH 1/2] tools: Link OCaml programs with -runtime-variant _pic if available.

[Pino Toscano]

On Thursday, 20 September 2018 14:16:15 CEST Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> OCaml has a small runtime which is statically linked into the virt
> tools (providing things like GC and primitives).  Since OCaml 4.03 it
> has been possible to select variants of this runtime, one of which is
> compiled with -fPIC, using ‘ocamlopt -runtime-variant _pic’.
> 
> This has performance implications on i686, but is relatively free on
> other architectures.  Since it (in theory) adds to the security of the
> final binary this commit enables it whenever it is available.
> ---

LGTM.

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Pino Toscano
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