[CMake] -fPIC .. (help w/ SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES)

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-09-27 10:42+0200 Axel Roebel wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Wednesday 27 September 2006 07:49, cmake-request at cmake.org wrote:
>> I don't think it matters whether the static library is linked with an
>> executable or a shared library.  Certainly linking to an external shared
>> library has worked for me recently without me having to do anything
>> special. Thus, I am virtually positive that linking with a shared library
>> built by cmake should also work without you doing anything special.
>
> Sorry Alan you are wrong here!

Since there appears to be controversy about this, it is more important than
ever to see a simple example with the details (cmake code, simple C code for
two different libraries, cmake output, and verbose make output) of what is
going wrong when you do nothing special with the -fPIC flag.

As for being wrong, that would be the first time ever...  :-)

Alan
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