On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:31:58PM -0700, walt wrote: > Yes, yes, I already have two different gcc's on DFly also. The > extra feature that gentoo's 'gcc-config' provides is an app > called 'fix_libtool_files' (in perl, IIRC) which runs around > looking for those god-forsaken *.la (Libtool Archive) files which > are hard-wired to one version of g++ and patches them to reflect > your current choice of compiler versions.
You don't fix the *libtool archives*, you fix *libtool*. That's where it wires the GCC specific parts in and nowhere else. PIE is not worth it, the performance hit is too big (since it basically demands PIC for everything). Joerg
