From: Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 21:38:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that --enable-shared puts PIC objects into the static libpython.
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~4741
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=65069670b5328ea301113a501ab8568760d4cebe;p=python

Document that --enable-shared puts PIC objects into the static libpython.
Fixes #589429.
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 1719385a37..de1ec59a1e 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