Commit 65069670 authored by Martin v. Löwis's avatar Martin v. Löwis

Document that --enable-shared puts PIC objects into the static libpython.

Fixes #589429.
parent d64845db
......@@ -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
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