On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Paul Kranenburg wrote:

: One nag to get rid of is that `c++rt.o' must be compiled using the
: same `-fpic' or `-fPIC' switch as the library it gets linked with.

On systems where these flags do make that kind of difference.  SPARC,
m68k.... <sigh>

However, I believe there is a workaround for this in the GNU ld, and once we
finally switch to that, it's simply a matter of making c++rt0.o -fPIC....

: As such, the currently existing `/usr/lib/c++rt.o' is not of much use.
: Maybe it is simpler to just include a make rule to re-compile c++rt.c
: with each library as needed.

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