Subject: Re: Shared libraries
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Ian Dall <ian@beware.dropbear.id.au>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 07/02/1999 08:18:24
Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> writes:

> 
> On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Ian Dall wrote:
> 
> : I presume this is because libgcc.a was not compiled with -fpic.
> 
> Hrm.  Thewn this is broken.  libgcc.a should most certainly be -fpic, as
> Cygnus compiles it that way.

There seems no simple way to get this into our build system. bsd.lib.mk
assumes that things with a .o extension are static and .so are dynamic.
I suppose we could just change all the extensions in libgcc/Makefile
to .so. Nothing should mind what the actual extensions of the objects
are.

Ian