On 18 Sep 2004, at 08:28, Jacob Meuser wrote:
Or maybe adopt an old idea from NetBSD. Instead of using names like
libfoo.a for archives built with PIC objects, call it libfoo_pic.a.
Of course, it would take a long time for everyone to adopt that, but
libtool
itself could easily adopt such a scheme, which may help speed up it's
acceptance ...
There is no problem with libtool built libraries, since you can tell
whether
an ar library was made with pic or non-pic objects from the .la file.
The difficulty comes when trying to figure out what type of objects
non-libtool libraries were built with...