Trying to build libgfortran.a with -fPIC

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 at 10:16, Ricardo Telichevesky wrote:
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> Hello,
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>      Can't find anywhere how to do it .... I've built the gcc compiler many times, in many different machines, and many versions ... However, now I need to compile it in such way that libgfortran.a and libquadmath.a with -fPIC flags, so that I can statically link them inside a shared object that
> contains lapack stuff ..
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>      The problem with distributing shared objects that rely on other shared objects is that quite often the target machine doesn't have the right libraries libgfortran.so and libquadmath.so ... and if I distribute them have to deal with proper search paths, etc, it is a mess...
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>      Any suggestions?  - perhaps there is a simple way to force the entire build of gcc  to compile with -fPIC ...


Does adding --with-pic to the configure options work?