On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Matthias Drochner wrote:

: I wanted a shared object build to automatically link in
: a PIC libgcc.
: The cross-gcc doesn't even try, due to the spec definition:
: "%{!shared:%{!symbolic:-lgcc}}"
: in the !NETBSD_NATIVE case.

Probably should be fixed, now that gcc3 builds a shared libgcc (see below).

: Btw, the pkgsrc gcc-3.3 builds only one libgcc, containing
: non-pic code.

Actually, it should be building a libgcc_s.so -- that's what other gcc
targets are using for ths purpose.  (It's PIC, but in the form of a linked
shared object.)

I don't know if libgcc_pic.a is generated along the way to this .so,
however, or if it can be installed automagically.

: For comparision I looked at a Debian system - there is just one
: libgcc.a which is always used (the spec rule is just "-lgcc"),
: but libgcc.a contains PIC code. (checked with objdump -r)
: Seems correct, albeit not optimized for performance of static
: programs.

Which is a possibility, but there have been problems linking PIC and non-PIC
on some architectures in the past.  I don't know if that is still the case.

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-- Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>