LT_INIT pic-only not setting --with-pic

[Luke Mewburn]

Hi,

I'm using libtool (and the other autotools) to build an installed
static library (which I don't want it as a shared library),
which I link into various other applications.

I sometimes need to link this static library into a dynamic
object, such as a python module, and so we need the static
library compiled as PIC.

Recently, I started getting libtool failures trying to build
the shared python module, complaining about the missing PIC
support.  I had made a few changes to our build infrastructure,
including:
 - upgrade from libtool 2.2.10 to libtool 2.4
 - explicit use of LT_INIT in configure.ac
 - conversion from use of foo_LDADD = -static in Makefile.am
   to LT_INIT([disable-shared])
and one of these stopped the PIC compilation of the objects.
I speculate it was the use of disable-shared versus the previous
behaviour where I was getting implicit PIC support in the normal
build.

As a solution, I tried LT_INIT([disable-shared pic-only]),
but that did not seem to set --with-pic as I expected.

My current workaround is to explicitly invoke configure --with-pic
in the package build framework.

Is LT_INIT([disable-shared pic-only]) not setting --with-pic
a bug in libtool, or my misunderstanding of its purpose?

thanks,
Luke.

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