patch: c/cxxflags for static libraries

[Simon Hausmann]

On Sunday 16. July 2006 01:52, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> 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.

Yes yes, not strictly speaking. But in 99% of the cases in KDE we link those 
static libraries into a shared object (either as regular library or as 
kdeinit module), and then it breaks.

In KDE3 we (or rather libtool) compiled them with PIC, too. And so does qmake 
(since Qt 4.1). Why should we suddenly stop doing the same? I don't believe 
the 'optimization' is really worth it when it simply breaks the build.


Simon
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