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On Mon, 2004-01-26 at 20:47, Diego Nehab wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, since you seem to what this is all about, why
> isn't this option always enabled? What does it do, exactly? Can it harm
> you if you turn it on and build a static library?

It impedes performance on some platforms to have position independant
code. Also in some cases, it can result in non-linkable-statically
objects depending on the platform.

The correct method is to build once for .a and once for .so

D.

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Digital-Scurf