From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 18:42:20 -0400
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Subject: Re: Package of libtool?
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> that should be handled in binutils (ie add support to bfd) or gcc (ie
> disallow -fPIC for a djgpp host).

My option is the compiler should reject -fPIC. It's easy enough to do:

Index: djgpp.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/gcc/gcc/config/i386/djgpp.h,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -c -p -r1.26 djgpp.h
*** djgpp.h	2001/05/20 19:54:04	1.26
--- djgpp.h	2001/06/18 22:41:55
*************** do \
*** 280,285 ****
--- 280,289 ----
        {	\
          warning ("-mbnu210 is ignored (option is obsolete)."); \
        }	\
+     if (flag_pic) \
+       { \
+         error ("-f%s is not supported by this target", (flag_pic > 1) ? 
"PIC" : "pic"); \
+       } \
    } \
  while (0)