patch: c/cxxflags for static libraries

Stephan Kulow coolo at kde.org
Sun Jul 16 08:51:52 CEST 2006


Am Sonntag, 16. Juli 2006 01:52 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Matt Rogers wrote:
> >On Monday 10 July 2006 11:19, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> >> On Sunday 09 July 2006 17:54, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> >> > Hi,
> >> >
> >> > static libraries have to be built PIC in order for them to be able
> >> > to be linked into shared objects.
> >>
> >> Ok, but where do we need this ?
> >> All uses of libtool convenience libs have been converted to just use
> >> the sources directly AFAIK.
> >
> >kdevelop still uses static libraries in some places.
>
> Static libraries don't need -fPIC.
OK, this turning in circles, but let me quote from above:
static libraries have to be built PIC in order for them to be able
to be linked into shared objects.

Greetings, Stephan


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