Alessandro Vesely wrote: > Why not? I can build a shared library linking it with a static one. > The static library has to be compiled with -fPIC, of course. It will > then be included in the shared one, without further runtime dependencies.
Well of course if you put PIC objects in a static archive you can do that. But that misses the point, because it's not a common thing to do and the vast majority of static libs aren't built that way (and certainly not by libtool.) Moreover, libtool has no way of knowing wheter a random archive that's outside of its control happens to contain PIC objects, so it assumes it doesn't which is correct in the vast majority of cases. Now AFAIK libtool will create archives of PIC objects for convenience libraries. But these are never installed and always under the control of libtool so it doesn't have to guess. Brian _______________________________________________ http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libtool
