On Sun, 2005-12-18 at 17:44 -0500, Robert Connolly wrote: > I'm not sure what --with-pic does. It may just be an unutilized autoconfig > macro. When using --with-pic static libraries still get installed. > --disable-static works much better for not installing static libraries, but > some packages install static libraries regardless. > > The GCC specs will build everything with -fpic and link with -pie > automatically. Adding -fpie to Makefile.in is only to help performance, > although I've never benchmarked it, so I don't know how much it helps. It > helps more when -O3 or -filine-functions is used. > > You can get away with just using --disable-static. > > robert
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