Re: X Working!
Rod Stewart wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > The patched ORBit looks for both libwrap.so and libwrap.a in that
> > order and acts accordingly, so it should work with systems missing
> > libwrap.so.
>
> Ah, but if you are on ARM, or perhaps sparc, and only have a static
> libwrap.a built without -fPIC, you are still going to have problems. One
> could check to see if libwarp.a was compiled with -fPIC and generate an
> error if it was not. But people on architectures which do not need -fPIC
> would not be happy...
I think you're effectively arguing that ARM and Sparc should have a shared
libwrap, as they do in Debian. :-)
> > IMHO, this is the right way to do things. The ORBit deb maintainer
> > seems to agree, and has recommended my patch for inclusion upstream
> > for release in 0.5.1, which should get into potato. See bug #46324.
>
> I agree, have you considered submitting it back to the ORBit project, not
> simply the deb maintainer. (I'm guilty of doing this on occasion myself,
> not sending patches back upstream :))
Sent it to orbit-list, but forgot that I'm no longer subscribed, and it's a
RedHat list which tacks "Reply-to: orbit-list..." on each email so replies would
only go to the list. Can't find an archive either, so I don't know what people
made of it.
Thanks,
-Adam P.
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