GCC -fPIC option

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Tue Mar 4 09:20:37 GMT 2008


On Tuesday 04 March 2008 09:40:58 Nicolas Ternisien wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The following bug :
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158587
>
> reports the need of the -fPIC compilation option for AMD 64 processor.
> Do I ignore this request, do we plan to add this to the default KDE
> builds option, or something else (I must admit I have no idea about
> the interest of this option)

The bug report is invalid. The -fPIC option is already part of the KDE build 
options.

You shouldn't be trying to link a static library. Please use dynamic libraries 
only.

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