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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: libxl: link error
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 16:25:52 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 13, Ian Jackson wrote:

> If we do that then the .o files in the .a's will be -fPIC too but
> that's a price worth paying.

Even .a objects can endup in other .so files, although its unlikely for
the xen case. Better compile shared libs with -fPIC.

> I guess this might be fallout from Olaf's LDFLAGS/LIBS patch.

Sorry if thats the case, perhaps I should have paid also attention to
the -fPIC usage.

Olaf