Building PIC fortran libraries?

[Matthias Klose <doko@cs.tu-berlin.de>]

Randolph Chung writes:
 > Package: gcc-3.0
 > Version: 1:3.0.1-0pre010801
 > 
 > The fortrain library libg2c is built as a non-PIC archive in the default
 > gcc package (at least it was on ia64). On some architectures, linking
 > non-PIC code into PIC shared objects is not allowed (ia64, hppa,
 > mips{,el}, etc). This causes applications that try to build fortrain
 > shared objects (pdl for example) to fail.
 > 
 > Would it be possible to build libg2c as a PIC library?

see #104250. But this is another reason. I'll backport it, if it's
in 3.1 ;)