On Wed, 3 Sep 2003, Valeriy E. Ushakov wrote:

: > This part should already be happening.  NetBSD's gcc LIBGCC_SPEC will use
: > -lgcc_pic in place of -lgcc when invoking "gcc -shared" for link.
:
: I don't see anything like that in our tree.  I also don't see
: -lgcc_pic in my build logs for either gcc2 or gcc3 world builds.

When you link anything with "cc -o foo ...", -lgcc is implicitly added (see
LIBGCC_SPEC in the gcc sources, or do "gcc -dumpspecs" and look at the line
after "*libgcc:").  When -shared is specified in the link, -lgcc_pic should
be used instead.  This was the case at least for gcc 2.95 as in NetBSD 1.6,
and I believe its behavior should have been carried over to gcc3.

However, bsd.lib.mk may need tweaking.  I'm not up to full -current yet, and
it's possible that it now uses "cc -shared" (it used to do "ld -shared",
which doesn't get the benefit of automatic startfiles and -lgcc linkage).
Under the old "ld -shared" form, or with "cc -nostdlib", bsd.lib.mk may need
to put in -lgcc_pic explicitly.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>