In message <Pine.NEB.4.53.0306302349080.6629@netbsd.int.duh.org>, Todd writes: 

-> On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, matthew green wrote:
-> 
-> :    Right.  libgcc_s should always be PIC, and there is zero reason for it 
-> not
-> :    to be.
-> :
-> : yeah, and i mean config/t-netbsd ... but there appears to be no such
-> : variable for libgcc_s only...
-> 
-> If libgcc_s.so is built from the same options as libgcc.a, then there's no
-> choice in the 3.3 branch; force -fPIC and say "we're sorry about the PIC
-> penalty, but live with it until this is Done Right."

This certainly beats "you have to link your program differently/build your
gcc differently so that it works on NetBSD" :-)

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                     rafal@pobox.com
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