[LLVMdev] fPIC in llvm 2.6

[Ryan M. Lefever]

The reason I was linking via llvm-ld is because I didn't know how to 
pass bitcode files to llvm-gcc.  How can I do that?

Anton Korobeynikov wrote:
>> Is fPIC broken on x86_64 in LLVM 2.6?
> No, it works w/o any problems
> 
>> -------------------
>>  > llvm-gcc -Iinclude -emit-llvm -fPIC -O3 -c -o file.opt.bc  file.c
>>  > llvm-ld -native -Xlinker=-shared -Xlinker=-Wl,-soname,libtest.so -o
>> file.so file.opt.bc
>> -------------------
> PIC-ness is a backend option. So, passing -fPIC to llvm-gcc does not
> make any sense, it is not saved into the bytecode.
> Try passing -relocation-model=pic to llvm-ld, or just compile
> everything via llvm-gcc which known how to pass necessary options to
> backend :)
>