Clarification

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Feb 13, 2001, "Sangwan, Vikas (CORP, GEITC)" <Vikas.Sangwan@geind.ge.com> wrote:

> I am trying to build a shared library from a set of '.o's.

Compile with -fPIC, otherwise Sun's linker will complain unless you
run gcc with -mimpure-text.  The latter will result in dynamic
libraries, but not shared libraries (in the sense that their memory
pages won't be shareable across multiple processes, because they'd
need relocations).

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