Re: [Boost-build] bjam and -fPIC

From: Stefan Seefeld (seefeld_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-28 14:03:58

Roland Schwarz wrote:

>> The most important recommendation is to always use -fpic or -fPIC
>> when generating code which ends up in DSOs. (dynamically shared
>> objects)
> 
> ...
> 
>> It is therefore mandatory to compile all code which can potentially
>> end up in a DSO with -fpic / -fPIC since othzerwise the DSO might
>> not work correctly.
> 
> Not claiming I understand everything he says in full. But I thought
> the reference could be interseting to this case.

Yes, but the question was about the linking step, not the code 
generation. I don't think -fPIC has any impact on the linker backend 
(i.e. 'ld').

Regards,
                Stefan

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