Re: Linking against indirect dependencies

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 28, 2004, Szombathelyi György <address@hidden> wrote:

> AFAIK it's possible to link in libdep to libfoo if libdep is static

Depends on the platform.  Some combinations of OSs, ABIs and hardware
architectures don't allow non-PIC in shared libraries.  Yes, several
of the platforms that don't support this are GNU/Linux ports.

Try this on x86_64-linux-gnu, for example.  It won't work, unless you
somehow arrange for libdep.o to not contain any relocations that
aren't PIC.

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