Re: Linking a static library with -fPIC for flex
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 18:09:16 -0700, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> said:
> The other alternative discussed on IRC was to make /usr/lib/libfl.so
> a linker script, à la libc.so. I think the below should be
> sufficient, giving you PIC code when shared linking is requested by
> the linker and non-PIC code when static linking is requested:
> /* GNU ld script
> When shared linking is requested, map the request to the PIC
> static library, which is the closest we come to a shared library
> here. */
> INPUT( /usr/lib/libfl_pic.a )
> Untested, though; it may actually be better to use GROUP() instead
> of INPUT(), I'm not sure if ld will treat the two commands the same
> for reduction of unused symbols.
`-( ARCHIVES -)'
`--start-group ARCHIVES --end-group'
The ARCHIVES should be a list of archive files. They may be
either explicit file names, or `-l' options.
The specified archives are searched repeatedly until no new
undefined references are created. Normally, an archive is
searched only once in the order that it is specified on the
command line. If a symbol in that archive is needed to resolve an
undefined symbol referred to by an object in an archive that
appears later on the command line, the linker would not be able to
resolve that reference. By grouping the archives, they all be
searched repeatedly until all possible references are resolved.
Using this option has a significant performance cost. It is best
to use it only when there are unavoidable circular references
between two or more archives.
Since there is only one archive, and there are no circular
dependencies, I think we would be OK with using INPUT.
manoj
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