From 65069670b5328ea301113a501ab8568760d4cebe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Martin=20v=2E=20L=C3=B6wis?= Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 21:38:27 +0000 Subject: Document that --enable-shared puts PIC objects into the static libpython. Fixes #589429. --- README | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 1719385..de1ec59 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -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 -- cgit v0.12