Re: doc: clarification of convenience archi and --preserve-dup-deps

[Gary V . Vaughan]

Hallo Ralf,

On 25 Aug 2005, at 13:47, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:


> * Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:25:17PM CEST:
>
>
> > On 25 Aug 2005, at 02:07, tom fogal wrote:
> >
> >
> > > we can use a convenience archive or archives to create any other  
> > > type
> > > of library (static, shared, or  another convenience archive).
> >
> > There is a wrinkle in the current implementation of convenience
> > libraries, in that they contain only PIC objects.  It is, therefore,
> > not  portable to link them into anything other than another
> > convenience library or a  shared library. (In practice, it might work
> > in a lot of real life environments depending on how PIC objects  
> > behave
> > when linked directly into static archives or applications...
>
> I did not know that, and in fact I suggested Tom to use this
> formulation.  Which systems disallows linking PIC objects in static
> archives?  (Yet another reason to create both non-PIC and PIC
> convenience archives, if you ask me.)

You know, I'm not entirely sure -- probably something arcane like  
Ultrix, AIX or OSF.  ISTR it was Alexandre that pointed it out  
originally, maybe he remembers?

Cheers,
    Gary.
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