-mrelocatable broken on ppc-linux

[Segher Boessenkool]

On 21-jan-04, at 17:34, Geoff Keating wrote:
> I thought we'd decided that linux users didn't need -mrelocatable,
> since (a) nothing uses it and (b) linux already has shared libraries
> using -fpic which are more efficient; so all those fixups were just
> making the toolchain slower.  Why do you want -mrelocatable on linux?

We need it for building some small parts of the PPC32 Linux _kernel_.

I 100% agree it is really ugly, but we'll have to live with it for
the foreseeable future.

So please don't remove -mrelocatable{,-lib} for now.


Segher