Created attachment 219309 [details] patch The static library is built w/out -fPIC and prevents the update of math/openturns to 1.16rc1. See the error message in https://github.com/openturns/openturns/issues/1652#issue-734688473 Additionally, shared libraries make it easier to track dependencies. For example, USE_XORG were missing and this became apparent only through the shared library.
A commit references this bug: Author: arrowd Date: Tue Nov 3 08:03:20 UTC 2020 New revision: 553954 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/553954 Log: science/dlib-cpp: Build shared library instead of static one. PR: 250815 Submitted by: yuri Changes: head/science/dlib-cpp/Makefile head/science/dlib-cpp/pkg-plist