> You need to use the -fPIC option when building your code also. Any object
> files that are to be placed into a static library for the x86_64
> architecture must be compiled using position-independent code.

That's not exactly true. Only code that can end up in a _shared_
library (i.e. source code of a shared library or a static library that
is linked against a shared library) needs to be compiled with this
option.

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