[gccsdk] PIC code in static libraries

[Peter Naulls]

John Tytgat wrote:
> In message <4A7A3581.5010804 at chocky.org>
>           Peter Naulls <peter at chocky.org> wrote:
> 
>> For similar cases, John has said he'll take a look at the linker
>> to try and have it reject cases of mixing PIC and non-PIC code. This
>> will avoid problems later on with mystery crashes.
> 
> I'm looking at this right now and have an idea how to do this in the
> ld source code but I see something odd which might require some attention.
> 

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I do have an example of where this is going wrong - libsm6, which pulls
in libuuid, which doesn't presently have a dynamic version (will fix).
This later fails at dynamic link time with a text relocation, but it's
not at all obvious that libuuid was to blame without staring at the
build for a while.