Re: [JITTER] PIC code in sub-package mode

[Luca Saiu]

On 2020-05-17 at 20:04 +0200, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:

> Libtool convenience libraries can be incorporated in both applications
> and shared objects (using LDADD and LIBADD respectively), so I guess the
> libfoo.la contains pointers to both PIC and non-PIC code.

Let me restate in public, for the record, what we discussed yesterday.

Libtool convenience libraries *are* in fact guaranteed to always contain
PIC code, or at least PIC code, for the simple fact that they may be
used to generate part of a *shared* library.  The fact that convenience
libraries are static is entirely irrelevant: convenience libraries are
just a collection of object files.
Therefore José was right from the beginning and what I incorrectly
believed to be just a coincidence is in fact the guaranteed behavior.  I
had to reread the manual to remember, and to believe.

I am implementing JITTER_LIBADD in a temporary feature branch.
Sub-package mode seems to work well and I have restructured the
Structured example build system to show how it works.

What I still need to implement is a way to *install* a Libtool
convenience library, for Jitter in non-sub-package mode.  But it should
not be difficult.

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