[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] libcap: fix static linking issue

[Thomas Petazzoni]

Dear Romain Naour,

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:11:53 +0200 (CEST), Romain Naour wrote:

> | > +ifeq ($(BR2_PREFER_STATIC_LIB),y)
> | > +LIBCAP_LDFLAGS=-fPIC
> | > +endif
> | 
> | This seems really weird, because normally, we would expect exactly
> | the
> | opposite: position independent code is needed for shared libraries,
> | not
> | for static libraries.
> 
> Ok, I'll take the problem from the beginning.
> Sorry for that mistake.

Note that I'm not sure about what I said, but having to build with
-fPIC in the static lib case seems really strange.

Thanks!

Thomas
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