[Boost-users] Static linking/GCC 4.3.2 on Linux (-fPIC missing?)

Hi, I've been using Boost 1.37 so far on Linux, and linked some libraries statically into a shared library. That is, I have a .so (Foo.so), which statically links in Boost.Filesystem (among others). Yesterday I tried to compile Boost 1.38 for Linux, everything worked fine, but as soon as it got to linking my .so, GCC stops as Boost.Filesystem has not been compiled with -fPIC. I don't remember I had to set -fPIC on 1.37 though. Setting cxxflags=-fPIC obviously solves the problem (along with a recompile of Boost), so my question is: Is this a regression? Did I miss something? The environment is Linux with GCC 4.3.2, on x64. Cheers, Anteru