In article <Pine.NEB.3.96.980706095500.425B-100000@duhnet.net>,
Todd Vierling  <tv@pobox.com> wrote:
> The fix is to make the package compile with -fPIC instead of -fpic - that
> is, incidentally, the way all PIC-library packages should be compiled.
> Again, GNU binutils ld can cope with it, but by adding a bunch of extra
> indirection and code (which slows things down).  This package should compile
> with -fPIC, not -fpic, on _all_ platforms.

The selection of -fpic ultimately derives from the configure script in
the python package. If it really should be -fPIC always, I'll add a
patch to change it (also for FreeBSD/OpenBSD) and send that to
python.org as well.