On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 08:56:14PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote: > True enough, though your proposal might place more of a burden on > future packagers of SDL-using (or libiberty-using, or whatever) > applications and libraries. I'm not totally sure it's reasonable to > expect these people to know about the -pic packages and fix their > configury to make use of them. I'm certainly open to doing what I can to help educate package maintainers on these issues, such as by writing a Policy proposal. However, I expect the situation with the static X extension libraries to be an exceptional and transient case. (XFree86 does hear the clamor for shared libraries.) The main problem is that because both XFree86 and Debian have release cycles measured in geological time, a transient solution for us might persist for an entire release. However, with a freeze and release stability in effect, there's no reason to expect the interfaces of these extension libs to change and thus disrupt SDL-based packages. > Personally, I remain strongly of the opinion that those architectures > which are unable to tolerate non-PIC code in shared objects should > just fix their dynamic loaders and be done with it. I might agree if I knew whether or not this was possible. Unfortunately, I know little of the implementation details of object loaders. -- G. Branden Robinson | A committee is a life form with six Debian GNU/Linux | or more legs and no brain. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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