On Nov 30, 2005, at 1:32 AM, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
/usr/bin/ld: hammer/accum.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC hammer/accum.o: could not read symbols: Bad value Shouldn't all externals be compiled with -fPIC on Linux? I know Darwin/Mac OS X compiles DLLs as -fPIC by default.
What's the effect of -fPIC and -fpic in 32-bit mode on PC ? Are these options ignored or do they have some slight effect that I don't know about?
I was under the impression that -fPIC should be used on shared libraries for Linux as well, I think Günter said something to that effect some time ago. I don't have anything to back that up other than a recollection.
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