Jack Howarth writes: > What on earth would make you think that the linker on Darwin > would reject non-PIC code in linking a shared library. The linker > on Linux doesn't do any such thing (hence the discussion on the > Debian mailing list of adopting this as check on their builds).
x86 is special. On x86 it's somewhat possible to build shared libraries without PIC, but it's a really bad idea. On other arches, PIC is compulsory. So: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /usr/bin/gcc -m32 -shared -o client.so client.c [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ /usr/bin/gcc -m64 -shared -o client.so client.c /usr/bin/ld: /tmp/ccaXMxyb.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC But please, take this to binutils. Andrew.
