We currently do this sporadically. Not only amongst packages, but across
OS's, i.e sometimes it's done for BSDs/Android, and sometimes not.
Configure with `--with-pic` globally instead. I think this generally
makes more sense, and should not have any downsides.
See related discussion in
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28846#discussion_r1399123100.
By blanket passing --disable-dependency-tracking to all depends packages
we end up with some warnings like:
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-dependency-tracking
So instead, only pass it to packages that understand it.
Related to https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/16354.
We use pkg-config where we can, which generally replaces libtool at a
higher level and does not have the same downsides as libtool. These
archives sit in our depends tree with no purpose and pollute the final
bitcoin build with massive overlinking.
fanquake