> > I recall that the Debian folks proposed a method of detecting non-PIC > code in their shared libs using... > > readelf -d foo.so | grep TEXTREL > > Does anyone know if some mechanism like this is possible for Darwin > shared libraries? I ask because we just discovered that the gmp developers > have been building non-PIC code (due to the usage of -fast without -fPIC) > in the MacOS X builds. It would be nice to be able to check for the non-PIC > code in all the shared libs on MacOS X. Thanks in advance for any info.
This is offtopic. Also this is hard to do in a target dependent way. Anyways the linker for darwin should have rejected this case anyways. Report this as a bug to Apple. -- pinski
