CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE

[PetterS]

Is there a perfomance reason the configuration does not always do this:

set(CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE TRUE)

Even if static libraries are built, they may be needed to in turn build shared libraries, which will fail without position independent code. I recently encountered this and had to change CMakeLists.txt.

[vitaut]

Apart from potential performance benefits, there is also a CMake convention where POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE property is set to False for static libraries. In any case you can easily set it yourself:

cmake -DCMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE=TRUE .

[PetterS]

Alright, I suppose that is good enough.