patch: c/cxxflags for static libraries

Simon Hausmann hausmann at kde.org
Mon Jul 17 00:12:10 CEST 2006


On Sunday 16. July 2006 20:31, Thiago Macieira wrote:
[...]
> If you add a .o that happens to be in an ar archive into a shared library,
> you've got a convenience library, not a static library. In those cases,
> just link the .o once and for all. There's no need to create the archive.

Yes, but as long as the build system offers this feature people will use it. 
So I suggest that we either drop the feature alltogether or we use -fPIC 
there as well. But offering it as feature that only works on i386 when linked 
into a final shared object is not a good idea IMHO.


Simon
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