SunOS shared libs ?

[Munagala V. S. Ramanath]

    Jeffrey A Law <law@hurl.cygnus.com> writes:

>   In message < 199806101546.IAA05334@netcom13.netcom.com >you write:
>   > write_c_file - output name is ../../../lib/libtype1.so, prefix is libtype1_
>   > so
>   > static int count;
>   > typedef void entry_pt();
>   > void _GLOBAL__FI_libtype1_so() {
>   >         ++count;
>   > }
> Here's the reason why you still need the -fPIC option when building
> a shared library out of just pure C code.  The reference to "count"
> must be PIC.  I don't know why we need to increment that counter.
> Someone familiar with C++ and collect2 would have to comment.
> 
> jeff

    Thanks for the response but my message was several weeks old and
    had already been answered by Manfred; it somehow got recirculated
    to the list; I have no idea how that happened (I did not resend it).

    Ram