Re: Building PIC fortran libraries?
Randolph Chung writes:
> > hmm, it's easy to build a libg2c-pic.a library. So I will do this
> > instead of building the standard library with pic. Building a shared
> > library would introduce a incompatibility to other distros.
>
> Matthias,
>
> This might be an issue -- because a generic invocation of g77 won't know
> library to link in, libg2c.a or libg2c-pic.a .... (i.e. things like pdl
> will need a debian-specific change from upstream to build on debian)
>
> or am i missing something?
no, but do you know that providing a pic libg2c.a doesn't break
anything? it's freeze time.
> if you are building separate libraries anyway, is it difficult to just
> build non-pic libg2c.a and pic libg2c.so ?
Probably not. For the libg2c-pic library, I didn't change anything in
the sources. An argument against a shared libg2c is that we get
incompatible with other distributions.
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