On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:37 PM, Jakub Jelinek <ja...@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 02:32:40PM +0200, Richard Biener wrote: >> While eliding ranlib sounds like a no-brainer the real benefit (I/O wise) is >> when you get rid of the archive or save link time by creating a (partially) >> linked DSO. ISTR Michael Matz has patches to do that. Whether it's > > DSO? Then we'd have to build everything with -fpic (which we only do when > building gccjit). Did you mean just a relocatable object (ld -r) instead?
I think his patches do a DSO (and yes, add -fpic). But a relocatable object is also possible of course (not sure if libtool provides support for creating such a beast portably). Richard. > Jakub