PATCH: Enable PIC for mips*-*-*

[Maciej W. Rozycki]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, H . J . Lu wrote:

> >  Position dependent code (as opposed to PIC).
> 
> I don't believe it is supported by glibc. It may or may not work. I

 Supported or not /usr/lib/libc.a is not PIC unless a platform mandates
otherwise.  For i386 it definitely is PDC.

> don't think we made any promise it will always work. FWIW, what is
> difference between linking against an archive which is not compiled
> with PIC vs. a .o file which is not compiled with PIC? It has nothing
> to do with archive.

 No difference.  But since it's not supported, I'd rather not put attempts
to support it in libtool.  I think a better aproach would be to either
build liberty as a shared library, or build it as an archive of PIC
objects and handle it explicitly in Makefiles for libraries depending on
it (e.g. via LDADD). 

  Maciej

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