[Flac-dev] Re: non-PIC code in shared libs again

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 05:14:45PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote:

> Ben Hines <bhines at alumni.ucsd.edu> wrote:
> 
> > The patch fixed the problem with your libs. However, when linking the 
> > xmms plugin i still get:
> > 
> > *** Warning: This library needs some functionality provided by -lstdc++.
> 
> This is because of id3lib, which is written in C++.  Mixing C and
> C++ is problematic.  As far as I understand, the final linking
> should always be done with the C++ compiler in this case.

Yes, unfortunately, the current release of libtool does not handle this
correctly.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=128391
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=179735

etc.

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 - mdz