Re: Patch not included in e2fsprogs 1.21.

[Philip Blundell]

>> (2) The patch is busted (not correct).  The object files being placed
>>     into the libext2fs_pic.a file are the non-shareable .o files, not
>>     the PIC .o files.  You need to cd into the elfshared subdirectory to
>>     get at the PIC files, and the Makefile fragment doesn't do that.
>
>Woops... I should really read how vars are used before assuming they
>hold a full path to files... :}

Actually, for boot-floppies' purposes it would be slightly better to build 
the shared library with non-PIC objects.  You may not have done it 
intentionally but it sounds like you got the right result. :-)

p.

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