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Re: -prefer-pic
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Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: -prefer-pic |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Jan 2008 22:54:41 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Hello Olly,
* Olly Betts wrote on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:42:16PM CET:
> The output from:
>
> libtool --help --mode=compile
>
> contains:
>
> -prefer-pic try to building PIC objects only
> -prefer-non-pic try to building non-PIC objects only
>
> Firstly, that's poor grammar ("try to build" would be better).
>
> Secondly, this seems to be the full extent of the documentation for
> these options - searching the info manual for "-prefer" doesn't find
> anything. The NEWS file notes they were added in libtool 1.3d "to
> control the generation of PIC/non-PIC code".
Firstly, a patch for both would be cool, and secondly, it's probably not
documented because it doesn't work all that well. ;-)
(Of course, the non-PIC code in shared issue is borked because of the
deplibs_check_method war. That should be revisited at some time and
redone right.)
Thanks for the report,
Ralf
- -prefer-pic, Olly Betts, 2008/01/10
- Re: -prefer-pic,
Ralf Wildenhues <=