Hello Rémi, * Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote on Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 10:34:43PM CEST: > > When passing the --enable-static option to the configure script of a > package that has disabled static libraries by default using > AC_DISABLE_STATIC in its configure.ac, both static and *shared* > libraries that libtool builds are non-PIC. Shared libraries should NEVER > EVER be non-PIC.
I have not heard of such behavior before (that I remember), and cannot reproduce it with the test below. Could you show what you did differently to expose this? Cheers, Ralf $ cat configure.ac AC_INIT([non-pic-shared], [1], [devnull]) AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign]) AC_CONFIG_FILES([Makefile]) AC_PROG_CC AC_DISABLE_STATIC AC_PROG_LIBTOOL AC_OUTPUT $ cat Makefile.am lib_LTLIBRARIES = libfoo.la $ touch libfoo.c $ autoreconf -v -i $ ./configure --enable-static $ make | grep -i pic gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"a\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"a\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"1\" "-DPACKAGE_STRING=\"a 1\"" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"b\" -DPACKAGE=\"a\" -DVERSION=\"1\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -I. -I. -g -O2 -c libfoo.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/libfoo.o
