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From: | Bob Friesenhahn |
Subject: | Re: [FYI] Cleanup of linux pass_all |
Date: | Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:22:19 -0500 (CDT) |
On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
if there was only a good way to test for PIC ....The only reasonable way I can think of is to get the linker to try and link stuff. If it fails, we print a warning message and proceed to building a static-only version of the library. And let's just hope modern linkers won't silently create corrupt binaries.
I expect that assumption takes a lot of finger-crossing. Some problems will be found at run-time by ld.so and some will be found via gdb in the resulting core dump. :-)
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