patch: c/cxxflags for static libraries

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Tue Jul 18 21:00:20 CEST 2006


Simon Hausmann wrote:
>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.

I agree: it shouldn't allow you to link a static library to a shared 
library.

Problem solved.

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