Re: [FYI] Cleanup of linux pass_all

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Alexandre, Scott!

Scott James Remnant wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 04:24 -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>>I realize you're trying to be pragmatic here, and trying to find the
>>simplest solution for the big problem at hand, but I don't think
>>that's the right way to run a project.  You should think of the
>>libtool design first, and then try to get packages to use it properly,
>>instead of forcing libtool to bend backwards to support abuses from
>>packages that should have known better.  While some of these packages
>>might not actually be broken, others will be, and with this change
>>users may get confused and blame libtool for an error that is actually
>>theirs.
>>
> 
> The error in this case is Libtool's.  It refuses to link PIC code into a
> shared library because the test it uses to determine whether code is PIC
> or not doesn't actually do anything of the kind and is based on an
> incorrect assumption (static=non-PIC, shared=PIC).

Isn't there some objdump incantation that will differentiate between PIC
and non-PIC objects?

If so, then we should add a new deplibs_check_method=objdump, and use that
for as many hosts as we are able.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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