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diff --git a/gcc/doc/install.texi b/gcc/doc/install.texi index 7be8e5a..5cb4d3c 100644 --- a/gcc/doc/install.texi +++ b/gcc/doc/install.texi @@ -925,6 +925,19 @@ Use @option{--disable-shared} to build only static libraries. Note that @option{--disable-shared} does not accept a list of package names as argument, only @option{--enable-shared} does. +Contrast with @option{--enable-host-shared}, which affects @emph{host} +code. + +@item --enable-host-shared +Specify that the @emph{host} code should be built into position-independent +machine code (with -fPIC), allowing it to be used within shared libraries, +but yielding a slightly slower compiler. + +Currently this option is only of use to people developing GCC itself. + +Contrast with @option{--enable-shared}, which affects @emph{target} +libraries. + @item @anchor{with-gnu-as}--with-gnu-as Specify that the compiler should assume that the assembler it finds is the GNU assembler. However, this does not modify |