Re: doc: clarification of convenience archi and --preserve-dup-deps

[Gary V . Vaughan]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for working on this!

On 25 Aug 2005, at 02:07, tom fogal wrote:


> we can use a convenience archive or
> archives to create any other type of library (static, shared, or  
> another
> convenience archive).

There is a wrinkle in the current implementation of convenience  
libraries,
in that they contain only PIC objects.  It is, therefore, not  
portable to
link them into anything other than another convenience library or a  
shared
library. (In practice, it might work in a lot of real life environments
depending on how PIC objects behave when linked directly into static
archives or applications...

Cheers,
    Gary.
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