From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Munagala V. S. Ramanath" <ram@netcom.com>
To: Manfred.Hollstein@ks.sel.alcatel.de, manfred@s-direktnet.de, ram@netcom.com
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: SunOS shared libs ?
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 07:36:00 -0000
Message-id: <199806101435.HAA20756@netcom13.netcom.com>
X-SW-Source: 1998-06/msg00384.html

> You need to add "-fPIC" to the linker command line  as well. If any of
> your  *.o files  contain  static CTOR/DTORs, a   small .c file will be
> generated by the  collect2 program which  in turn will be compiled and
> linked into  your shared lib.  Since you  didn't specify "-fPIC"  when
> linking, bloody  StunOS ld starts complaining...  Of course, using GNU
> ld (e.g. from  binutils-2.9.1) would cure  this; the current  mainline
> sources (the  snapshots)  address  this   differently, i.e.  you   can
> continue using SunOS ld.

    Ok, thanks that seems to have fixed the problem. I'd strongly
    suggest adding this to the FAQ.

    I still don't understand a couple of items:
    -- My files are all C (no C++) so there is CTOR/DTOR issue at all;
       how come I still need the -fPIC linker option ?
    -- How come I did not need -fPIC linker option with gcc-2.7.2 ?

    Anyway, thanks for the help.

    Ram