What is the right way to link static and shared libraries togethe r?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jul 10, 2003, Joerg.Richter@pdv-FS.de wrote:

> LINK -shared B.o -o libB.so -lA
> LINK C.o -o C -lB

> I like the second one better, cause you build a self contained shared
> library B. And the executable can link with B without knowing library A.

However, if library A contains non-PIC, it is possible that library B
fails to link, or is silently broken.  On some platforms, you just
can't link non-PIC into shared libraries.  On others, you can, even if
with a run-time penalty.

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