On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 11:31 +0100, Scott James Remnant wrote: > I'm all for having Libtool tell you that you can't link non-PIC code > into a shared library on platforms that don't support that -- but that > needs to be done by actually checking you're trying to do that, rather > than using an incorrect assumption.
It seems that the linker would be in a much better position to diagnose attempts to link non-PIC into a DSO than libtool is. So, at least where GNU ld is used, I think it'd be better for libtool not to try to determine compatibility for itself, and instead add that check to ld on platforms where it's important. p.
