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| author | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2002-08-03 21:38:27 (GMT) |
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| committer | Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de> | 2002-08-03 21:38:27 (GMT) |
| commit | 65069670b5328ea301113a501ab8568760d4cebe (patch) | |
| tree | 38f1776c9e7d145c4a4b8cbbfb6f6a2bbe1df4bd /README | |
| parent | d64845dbbec63c44a0a23b558b3cfe12dbc495fc (diff) | |
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Document that --enable-shared puts PIC objects into the static libpython.
Fixes #589429.
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@@ -642,7 +642,13 @@ Building a shared libpython Starting with Python 2.3, the majority of the interpreter can be built into a shared library, which can then be used by the interpreter executable, and by applications embedding Python. To enable this feature, -configure with --enable-shared. +configure with --enable-shared. + +If you do so, a static library will be created in addition to the +shared library, which uses the same object files as the shared library +In particular, the library likely object files using +position-independent code (PIC) if PIC flags are needed for the shared +library. Configuring additional built-in modules |