Re: doc: clarification of convenience archi and --preserve-dup-deps

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Gary,

* Gary V. Vaughan wrote on Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:25:17PM CEST:
> On 25 Aug 2005, at 02:07, tom fogal wrote:
> 
> >we can use a convenience archive or archives to create any other type
> >of library (static, shared, or  another convenience archive).
> 
> There is a wrinkle in the current implementation of convenience
> libraries, in that they contain only PIC objects.  It is, therefore,
> not  portable to link them into anything other than another
> convenience library or a  shared library. (In practice, it might work
> in a lot of real life environments depending on how PIC objects behave
> when linked directly into static archives or applications...

I did not know that, and in fact I suggested Tom to use this
formulation.  Which systems disallows linking PIC objects in static
archives?  (Yet another reason to create both non-PIC and PIC
convenience archives, if you ask me.)

Cheers,
Ralf, working on an improved version of the patch..