GCC problem on Solaris

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Mar 14, 2001, steve_wong@macroview.com.hk (Steve Wong) wrote:

> 	-shared means I am going to make a shared object

Right

> 	-static forces the linking to use archive file rather than shared object.

Not only that.  On many platforms, it also forces the resulting
executable to not be dynamically linked at all.  This obviously
doesn't make sense for shared libraries.

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