Compile libgcc with -fPIC on SVR4?

[Todd Vierling]

On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Jeffrey A Law wrote:

:   > TARGET_LIBGCC2_CFLAGS = -fPIC
:   > 
:   > in config/sparc/t-sol2 and config/t-linux, then it is also correct to
:   > define the same variable in config/t-svr4.
: I'd tend to agree :-)  In general, I think we need to do this for any
: target that supports shared libraries.
: 
: We have to be careful though -- we may need to handle -fpic and -fPIC
: separately if there's a system that doesn't allow mixing of the two
: styles in a single shared library.

`Multilib'.  That's what solves the mix-and-match problems on affected
targets.  SPARC SunOS 4.1.x, for example, has a `pic' (-fpic), `ucpic'
(-fPIC), and a standard version of libgcc.a, one each for V7 SPARC and one
each for V8 SPARC.  What's odd (bug!?) is that if --enable-shared is set at
config time, libstdc++.so.2.8.0 installs into *every* lib directory, whereas
it should just be in the standard lib directory (compiled with -fPIC and for
V7 SPARC).

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