Re: [FYI] Cleanup of linux pass_all

[Howard Chu]

Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> > if there was only a good way to test for PIC ....

> The only reasonable way I can think of is to get the linker to try and
> link stuff.  If it fails, we print a warning message and proceed to
> building a static-only version of the library.  And let's just hope
> modern linkers won't silently create corrupt binaries.

This makes the most sense I've heard so far. libtool does far too much 
work to try and protect programmers from their mistakes, which 
consequently makes libtool big and clunky and (IMO) just annoys the 
programmers. I would like to see a libtool that just assumes the 
programmer knows what she's doing; skip all the pre-emptive checks and 
just run the damn linker. If it fails, it should just stop dead (unless 
some other command-line option is provided, like 
"--retry-because-I'm-a-moron-and-don't-know-how-to-link-on-my-own-development-platform")
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