On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 11:11:10PM +0000, Will Newton wrote: > On Wednesday 20 Mar 2002 11:00 pm, Michel LESPINASSE wrote: > > I'd like to add that some architectures (including x86) do not actualy > > require that you use -fPIC for shared libraries. If you choose to do > > that, the benefits are that you dont pay the overhead of -fPIC code, > > the drawbacks however are that 1) the resulting shared lib violates > > debian policy, 2) programs which use the shared lib will need to do > So are you saying I should use -fPIC on all architectures?
For debian shared libraries, yes. For programs and static libraries, you should avoid using -fPIC. -- Michel "Walken" LESPINASSE Is this the best that god can do ? Then I'm not impressed.
