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PATCH: Enable PIC for mips*-*-*

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Fri Nov 9 07:12:00 GMT 2001 
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:29:59PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, H . J . Lu wrote:
> 
> > > and linking archives into shared libraries is wrong on a number of
> > > platforms, and the way to tell libtool about it is use a different
> > > setting in deplibs_check_method.
> > 
> > Feel free to get it right. My Linux binutils works fine under Linux.
> 
>  Please note that while linking PDC into a shared library technically does
> work for a number of systems, the resulting library is not shared anymore
> as it contains dynamic relocations in its text segment.  Actually I recall
> a nice comment on relocations in text that was once sent by Roland McGrath
> here...  Search the archive using "goat" and "relocations" keywords. ;-) 

I have to ask, what is PDC? In any case, linking against an archive
when building a shared library has to work under Linux. It is how
libgcc.a is used when building a shared library. If it doesn't work
for certain platforms, it has to be fixed.



H.J.
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