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Re: PIC & shared libs - let's solve this now;-)

To: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: PIC & shared libs - let's solve this now;-)
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 30 Mar 2000 21:44:43 -0800
References: <u866udaony.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de> <u8g0tam5gy.fsf@gromit.rhein-neckar.de>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Thanks, I've applied the patch.

Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:

> There're still some places which use PIC - they should be replaced
> either by __PIC__ or by SHARED.  But I wasn't sure what's the right
> thing to do since those occurences are all system specific.

We'll see over time.

One other thing is to avoid compiling files which do not depend on
SHARED.  This can be done if -fPIC is the default and therefore...

> We can now also remove the check "whether -fPIC is default" from
> configure.  I'll do this later after this patch has been added.

...this test should not go away.

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References:
- PIC & shared libs - let's solve this now;-)
  - From: Andreas Jaeger
- Re: PIC & shared libs - let's solve this now;-)
  - From: Andreas Jaeger

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