Library packages with only static archives

To: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org, aj@andaco.de
Subject: Library packages with only static archives
From: Drew Hess <drew.hess@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2004 12:54:56 -0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 9f506fbc041212125412f36e2c@mail.gmail.com>
Reply-to: Drew Hess <drew.hess@gmail.com>

binutils-dev only supplies a static archive for libiberty.  On AMD64,
this means that you can't use libiberty functions in shared libraries,
because libiberty.a isn't compiled with -fPIC.

Seems to me that all library packages on AMD64 should come with shared libs.

d

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