Re: [FYI] Cleanup of linux pass_all

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004, 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.

I expect that assumption takes a lot of finger-crossing.  Some 
problems will be found at run-time by ld.so and some will be found via 
gdb in the resulting core dump. :-)

Bob
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