Re: shared library depending on static library on Solaris

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> This test is skipped on a few arches like x86-64, hppa and s390,
> and I think the test shouldn't exists at all.  Most arches do not
> support having non-pic code in a shared lib, for others pic is the
> default.  Afaik, on linux, i386 is the only arch that actually
> supports non-pic code in a shared lib.
>
> Having non-pic code in a shared lib has as effect that the lib
> actually isn't shared by several processes, so it's a waste of
> memory.

Sun's Solaris supports it in some OS versions and under the right 
conditions.  And yes, it is wasteful.

Bob
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