>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> And that's the catch. On some platforms, you just
Alexandre> can't link static libraries into shared ones. Not even
Alexandre> if they're PIC.
Yuck.
Alexandre> Convenience libraries, with the
Alexandre> abstraction of ``aliases to sets of objects'', should
Alexandre> just work. It's just that they are not currently
Alexandre> installable. I wish they were. And I wish convenience
Alexandre> libraries could still come in PIC and non-PIC versions,
Alexandre> just like object files. Currently, every time you
Alexandre> create a convenience archive, you don't get the non-PIC
Alexandre> objects, unless the PIC objects aren't available.
I agree here. I think convenience libraries need to compile two sets
of libraries: *.a which contains non-PIC code and *.al which contains
PIC code.
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Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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