On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 15:49 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote: > While we're on this topic, I have a related question. I've been looking > at the Debian version of a package I'm working on, and in their > buildscripts they build a static library without -fPIC and then rebuild > with -fPIC for the shared library. It seems like unnecessary extra > compilation. Nope, this is the correct way. Ralf