On Thu, Aug 02, 2001 at 12:22:38PM -0600, Bradley C. Midgley wrote: > > > if the contents of a libfoo.a were created without -fPIC, then any .so > > > created with -lfoo will have REL24 relocations and fail. but debian policy > > i have another question along these lines. > > why doesn't gcc fail when it's told to create a .so using objects that are > not PIC? is it because it might possibly work? > > it would be a lot easier to track down a compilation failure than > backtracking after a dlopen problem and the underlying problem wouldn't be > ignored as much as it is now.
On some architectures, it will work anyway; also, the shared object could be used for some other purpose besides dynamic linking (i think?). You've just got to know what you're doing. It can also be a little tricky to tell. -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
