Problems with shared library (-fPIC) and tango

[Sean Kelly]

== Quote from e-t172 (e-t172 at akegroup.org)'s article
> Lars Ivar Igesund a écrit :
> > There is a ticket related to this somewhere. I believe I was told once that
> > part of the problem is that _all_ of the runtime can't be part of the
> > dynamic library, but that there needs to be a static portion too with at
> > least main. The above issue may have more to do with the effect of PIC on
> > the code though. It would be very good if it could be resolved.
> IIRC, there is only one problem when trying to build Tango with -fPIC :
> the garbage collector, which segfaults on collection. Fix the GC and you
> have your Tango shared library.

I believe this is an issue with the static data segments not being represented
in the way that the GC expects in a shared library.  I really need to do some
research to figure out how things are different in this instance.  Though if
someone knows then that would be good too :-)


Sean