We produce shared libraries which are used on different computers than those which they were produced on. In order to minimize dependencies and to avoid trouble with users' settings of LD_LIBRARY_PATH we prefer to link those shared libraries against static libraries wherever possible. I would thus like to configure gcc with "--disable-shared" in order to avoid referencing libstdc++.so. Linking static libraries into shared libraries requires that those static libraries were compiled with -fPIC, at least under Solaris and the x86_64 Opteron architecture. Is there a way to use "--disable-shared" and get libstdc++.a compiled using "-fPIC"? So far my attempts were unsuccessful for gcc 4.0.3 and 4.1.0. Thank you for any suggestions Michael Heissmeier
