Building libstdc++ non-shared with -fpic ?

[Richard Earnshaw]

> On Jul  1, 2000, Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com> wrote:
> 
> >> > That would imply that you are able to build shared libraries, which
> >> > use code which is not position independent
> >> 
> >> That is indeed the case.
> 
> > But only if your object model supports it.
> 
> Not only the object model.  The dynamic loader must support it too.  I
> remember a case of someone building shared libraries out of non-PIC
> code on GNU/Linux/ARM (what a coincidence :-) that would fail because
> glibc's ld.so wouldn't handle a particular kind of relocation.

Indeed.  This 'bug' was the first time I'd ever heard of non-pic code 
going into a shared library.  I guess it must have been the same for 
whoever implemented that code on the ARM.

R.