Static libraries forced to be PIC

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 11 October 2006 06:57, Carmelo Amoroso wrote:
> I'm wondering why if we have support for shared library on
> (HAVE_SHARED=y) that obviously needs DOPIC=y, we needs to build
> the static libraries as PIC code too.

you misunderstand the behavior of DOPIC ...

DOPIC=y -> force everything to be built as PIC
DOPIC=n -> only build shared stuff as PIC

> Is it just to avoid to rebuild all the code for the static version?

that is a nice advantage
-mike
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