[Gllug] -fPIC option

[rich at annexia.org]

For a while I've been building shared libraries without the -fPIC
option. That was until I started to build the same library on Solaris,
and found it didn't work unless I added -fPIC. So my question is: why
does Linux let me build non-position-independent shared libraries?
Will these libraries break or suffer some sort of penalty? Or is Linux
just more capable in some way than Solaris that it doesn't require
position-independent code in shared libraries?

Rich.

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