Re: -DPIC - redundant?

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
> Apologies if this is a stupid question, but please could someone explain to 
> me why libtool sets '-DPIC' for shared libraries, while gcc reliably defines 
> '__PIC__' when it generates PIC code?  Setting '-DPIC' encourages people to 
> do '#ifdef PIC' when surely '#ifdef __PIC__' would be more reliable.

Libtool supports plenty more compilers than just gcc.

Cheers,
        Gary.
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