https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35014
--- Comment #14 from Amir Shahmoradi <a.shahmoradi at gmail dot com> --- It's not a bug but a popular requested feature. See, for example, the discussion here: https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/distribute-shared-libraries-or-not/7532/1 Are there any downsides to distributing PIC-enabled `libgfortran.a` on all platforms? For consistency, if this is the default behavior on macOS, it should be the default on all platforms.