proper shared libbusybox building

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Feb 21 05:45:21 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 21 February 2006 12:12 am, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the current libbusybox.so is not built properly with -fPIC ... you x86
> users may not notice because the x86 toolchain accepts it without
> complaining (too much), but most other arches will abort the `gcc -shared`
> step because all the objects going into libbusybox.so are built w/out -fPIC
>
> i havent been keeping up on the busybox build system too much, so i wont be
> able to fix this without spending sometime learning it ... hopefully
> someone else out there can fix it quickly :)
> -mike

Is PIC larger or smaller than normal code?

We very much don't want to bloat the normal build...

Rob
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