[Boost-build] Following up on bjam and -fPIC

From: Guillaume Pothier (gpothier_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-16 15:36:09

Hi,
A recent thread (http://lists.boost.org/boost-build/2008/03/18671.php)
discussed the use of the -fPIC flag for static libraries built by
boost. The conclusion was that since 1.35 the flag should be properly
passed to the compiler.
However I am using 1.35 and it seems the flag is not passed.
Here is the command line I use:
./tools/jam/src/bin.linuxx86_64/bjam --v2 -d2 --toolset=gcc
gcc/variant=release,debug gcc/cflags=-fPIC gcc/cxxflags=-fPIC
gcc/linkflags=-fPIC --prefix=/home/gpothier/apps/boost/
--build-type=complete --with-filesystem --with-iostreams --with-thread
-a install

And here is a relevant piece of output:

8<----------------
gcc.compile.c++
bin.v2/libs/system/build/gcc-4.2.3/release/link-static/threading-multi/error_code.o

    "g++"  -ftemplate-depth-128 -O3 -finline-functions -Wno-inline
-Wall -pthread  -DBOOST_ALL_NO_LIB=1 -DBOOST_SYSTEM_STATIC_LINK=1
-DNDEBUG  -I"." -c -o
"bin.v2/libs/system/build/gcc-4.2.3/release/link-static/threading-multi/error_code.o"
"libs/system/src/error_code.cpp"

RmTemps bin.v2/libs/system/build/gcc-4.2.3/release/link-static/threading-multi/libboost_system-gcc42-mt-1_35.a(clean)

    rm -f "bin.v2/libs/system/build/gcc-4.2.3/release/link-static/threading-multi/libboost_system-gcc42-mt-1_35.a"

gcc.archive bin.v2/libs/system/build/gcc-4.2.3/release/link-static/threading-multi/libboost_system-gcc42-mt-1_35.a

    "/usr/bin/ar"  rc
"bin.v2/libs/system/build/gcc-4.2.3/release/link-static/threading-multi/libboost_system-gcc42-mt-1_35.a"
"bin.v2/libs/system/build/gcc-4.2.3/release/link-static/threading-multi/error_code.o"
8<----------------

Am I doing something wrong?

Regards,
g