> |  > | should we build the sparc ld.elf_so -fPIC not -fpic?
> |  > 
> |  > I suppose so.
> | 
> | Why does it matter?  ld.elf_so itself isn't that big!  It's *own*
> | relocations don't need to be large...
> 
> Don't other things need symbols from it though, like dl*?
> 


It does not matter what someone wants from a library. The pic vs PIC
thing is a purely internal matter; it determines what code is generated
to access entries in the library's own GOT table. In the case of
sparc code: `1 instruction with 13-bit immediate offset into GOT' vs
`2 instructions constructing a 32-bit offset into GOT'


-pk