From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeffrey A Law <law@cygnus.com>
To: "Munagala V. S. Ramanath" <ram@netcom.com>
Cc: Manfred.Hollstein@ks.sel.alcatel.de, manfred@s-direktnet.de, egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: SunOS shared libs ? 
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 1998 22:15:00 -0000
Message-id: <14465.899961057@hurl.cygnus.com>
References: <199806101546.IAA05334@netcom13.netcom.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00337.html

  In message < 199806101546.IAA05334@netcom13.netcom.com >you write:
  > write_c_file - output name is ../../../lib/libtype1.so, prefix is libtype1_
  > so
  > static int count;
  > typedef void entry_pt();
  > void _GLOBAL__FI_libtype1_so() {
  >         ++count;
  > }
Here's the reason why you still need the -fPIC option when building
a shared library out of just pure C code.  The reference to "count"
must be PIC.  I don't know why we need to increment that counter.
Someone familiar with C++ and collect2 would have to comment.

jeff