On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:59:05AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote: > - permit building of static libraries with -fPIC (I don't think this > has any reason to be forbidden, does it?)
They are certainly no good reason to _allow_ it. This breaks common expectation and is generally slower. I don't see any point to remove this requirement at this point. Cheers, Bill.