Re: doc: clarification of convenience archi and --preserve-dup-deps

[Gary V . Vaughan]

Hi Tom,

Thanks for working on this!

On 25 Aug 2005, at 02:07, tom fogal wrote:

we can use a convenience archive or

convenience archive).

archives to create any other type of library (static, shared, or another

library. (In practice, it might work in a lot of real life environments
depending on how PIC objects behave when linked directly into static
archives or applications...

Cheers,
    Gary.
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There is a wrinkle in the current implementation of convenience libraries, in that they contain only PIC objects. It is, therefore, not portable to link them into anything other than another convenience library or a shared Gary V. Vaughan ())_. gary@ {lilith.warpmail.net,gnu.org},[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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