Randolph Chung writes: > Package: gcc-3.0 > Version: 1:3.0.1-0pre010801 > > The fortrain library libg2c is built as a non-PIC archive in the default > gcc package (at least it was on ia64). On some architectures, linking > non-PIC code into PIC shared objects is not allowed (ia64, hppa, > mips{,el}, etc). This causes applications that try to build fortrain > shared objects (pdl for example) to fail. > > Would it be possible to build libg2c as a PIC library?
see #104250. But this is another reason. I'll backport it, if it's in 3.1 ;)