environment settings

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Nov 26, 2018, at 10:51, Mark Brethen wrote:

> On Nov 26, 2018, at 10:39 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> For example, I see here that they make a copy of the configured source directory so that they can build libtaucs.a "normally" in the first directory and then with position-independent code in the second directory so that a shared library can be created from it.
> 
> You are referring to the $(PICFLAG) variable in the second build?

Yes.

> I wondered about that, and had read that it wasn’t necessary for Mac OSX?

Yes. PIC is on by default on macOS.