On Wednesday 28 September 2005 07:56 am, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> " Shared libraries, however, may only be built from
> "position-independent code" (PIC). So, special flags must be passed to
> the compiler to tell it to generate PIC rather than the standard
> position-dependent code." [libtool.info.gz]
>
> This looks wrong to me.
looks correct to me
> A final program,
the snippet you posted doesnt say anything about final programs, just shared
libraries
> or a final shared library, does
> not care if its object files were built with or without -fpic/-fPIC. At
> least this is the case on GNU/Linux and afaics {Free,Open}BSD. I maybe seen
> it on the MacOS-X/Darwin too when I last tried building some on
> Sourceforge CF. On Win32, -fPIC is always in effect.
sounds like you're testing on x86. some architectures (like x86) will accept
non-PIC objects in shared libraries, but many (like alpha/parisc/x86_64) will
fail to even link the objects together into a shared library.
-mike
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