Re: Library packages with only static archives

[Drew Hess <drew.hess@gmail.com>]

Thanks.  Until it's fixed by the maintainer, I made my own version of
the package which builds and installs libiberty.so.  It's a bit of a
hack, but I can submit the patch if it helps.

d



On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 00:41:40 +0100, Goswin von Brederlow
<brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Drew Hess <drew.hess@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > There aren't any Debian policy violations that I'm aware of... but I
> > would like to use libiberty in my own shared library, and I can't on
> > debian-amd64.
> >
> > I have followed up on a binutils bug that was submitted 2 years ago
> > re: lack of shared libiberty on other archs, but I'm hoping that
> > raising this issue on debian-amd64 will expedite a fix.
> >
> > d
> 
> What you can do meanwhile is to force users of your lib to link in
> libiberty.a on their own. If you have a *.la file you can add the lib
> there. It is not policy in debian to do so but the mechanism is there.
> 
> MfG
>         Goswin
>