Libtool convenience library on x86_64

[Bill Jones]

I am trying to link a shared library against a libtool convenience 
library on an AMD opteron with libtool 1.5.10, automake 1.9, autoconf 
2.59, and gcc-3.2.2 (SuSE Linux).  If I use the normal method, that 
works fine under RedHat on Intel x86 (32 bit) and MinGW, I get the 
following error when linking my shared library:

relocation R_X86_64_32 can not be used when making a shared object; 
recompile with -fPIC

If I explicitly specify the "-fPIC" flag as part of my convenience 
library CFLAGS and rebuild it, then all links fine.  My concern here is 
if some later compiler does not support "-fPIC".  I am counting on 
libtool to figure this stuff out for me.

I have read Daniel Reed's posting to address@hidden entitled "disable 
nopic on x86_64 and s390* (was: Re: GNU Libtool 1.5.8 released.)" and it 
looks like you simply turned off this test.  Is this to be actually 
fixed at some point?  Is there a work around for using libtool 
convenience libraries in building shared libtool libraries?

Any help would be appreciated,

wtj
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