On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:28:27PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > It's a bit more complex than this, you can find a summary in > http://blog.bofh.it/id_101 . It is tangential to the issue here, but by my reckoning, the following plateforms handle non-PIC shared libraries fine: i386 sparc powerpc s390 mips mipsel and m68k. However i386 is notable for being the most slowed-down by -fPIC. Cheers, Bill