-fPIC and x86_64

Tue Aug 23 23:57:08 UTC 2005

On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 15:49 -0500, Quentin Spencer wrote:

> While we're on this topic, I have a related question. I've been looking 
> at the Debian version of a package I'm working on, and in their 
> buildscripts they build a static library without -fPIC and then rebuild 
> with -fPIC for the shared library. It seems like unnecessary extra 
> compilation.
Nope, this is the correct way.

Ralf