Re: -prefer-pic

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello Olly,

* Olly Betts wrote on Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 07:42:16PM CET:
> The output from:
> 
> libtool --help --mode=compile
> 
> contains:
> 
>   -prefer-pic       try to building PIC objects only
>   -prefer-non-pic   try to building non-PIC objects only
> 
> Firstly, that's poor grammar ("try to build" would be better).
> 
> Secondly, this seems to be the full extent of the documentation for
> these options - searching the info manual for "-prefer" doesn't find
> anything.  The NEWS file notes they were added in libtool 1.3d "to
> control the generation of PIC/non-PIC code".

Firstly, a patch for both would be cool, and secondly, it's probably not
documented because it doesn't work all that well.  ;-)
(Of course, the non-PIC code in shared issue is borked because of the
deplibs_check_method war.  That should be revisited at some time and
redone right.)

Thanks for the report,
Ralf