Bug in the doc?

[Jan Engelhardt]

Hi,


the info pages for libtool says

"   Shared libraries, however, may only be built from
"position-independent code" (PIC).  So, special flags must be passed to
the compiler to tell it to generate PIC rather than the standard
position-dependent code." [libtool.info.gz]

This looks wrong to me. A final program, or a final shared library, does 
not care if its object files were built with or without -fpic/-fPIC. At 
least this is the case on GNU/Linux and afaics {Free,Open}BSD. I maybe seen 
it on the MacOS-X/Darwin too when I last tried building some on 
Sourceforge CF. On Win32, -fPIC is always in effect.

Comments please.


Jan Engelhardt
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