Bug#329762: Relaxation and documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:59:05AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
>  - permit building of static libraries with -fPIC (I don't think this
>    has any reason to be forbidden, does it?)

They are certainly no good reason to _allow_ it. This breaks common
expectation and is generally slower. I don't see any point to remove
this requirement at this point.

Cheers,
Bill.