Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > Apologies if this is a stupid question, but please could someone explain to > me why libtool sets '-DPIC' for shared libraries, while gcc reliably defines > '__PIC__' when it generates PIC code? Setting '-DPIC' encourages people to > do '#ifdef PIC' when surely '#ifdef __PIC__' would be more reliable.
Libtool supports plenty more compilers than just gcc.
Cheers,
Gary.
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