dynamic linker question

[Ulrich Drepper]

Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk> writes:

> Is it a requirement that non-PIC objects be supported?

Not necessarily.  You could make it a policy.

But I would think about solving the problem in future.  The problem is
that one way to "save" a static .a library is to convert it into a
shared object and link it against, e.g, a certain libc version.  Then
the library will use the correct functions from the libc.  But the
original .a file contains probably files not compiled with -fPIC.

> The test cases in the elf directory are currently not PIC and these
> tests consequently fail on ARM at the moment.

This is mainly an oversight from on my side.  I'll correct this in a
few minutes.

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