On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
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.
I recall from discussions a couple of years ago that this define is even used from within some Fortran code.
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