Clarify a statement regarding both shared and static library.

Closes SF bug #774480.

Clarify a statement regarding both shared and static library.
Closes SF bug #774480.
55512dcc · Fred Drake · 6c497099 · 55512dcc
Commit 55512dcc authored Jul 21, 2003 by Fred Drake
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@@ -763,11 +763,10 @@ 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. 
-If you do so, a static library will be created in addition to the
+If you enable this feature, the same object files will be used to create
-shared library, which uses the same object files as the shared library
+a static library.  In particular, the static library will contain object
-In particular, the library likely object files using
+files using position-independent code (PIC) on platforms where PIC flags
-position-independent code (PIC) if PIC flags are needed for the shared
+are needed for the shared library.
-library.
 Configuring additional built-in modules