On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:17 -0500, Lon Hohberger wrote: > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 14:54 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > cman, dlm and magma build static libraries with PIC-code, this makes it > > impossible to link that code into binaries. > > Eh? On what architecture? Building -fPIC/-fpic generates position independent code, which is needed on some architectures in order to create dynamically-loadable plugins/libraries which use static libraries during linking. Building without -fPIC precludes this use. -- Lon
