On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 11:56:58AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > as per Policy § 10.2, I would like to know if everybody agrees if I change the > libbam-dev package to compile libbam.a with -fPIC. Without this it is not > possible to compile on amd64 the Bio::SamTools Perl library which I am > packaging (http://bugs.debian.org/543488). This is documented in the Perl > library’s README and I confirmed it on my amd64 computer. > http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LDS/Bio-SamTools-1.03/README What are the reasons for not shipping a shared library? That's always preferred over use of -fPIC for static libs, so we should examine the reasons for this first. > If I understood well, only libbam.a and not the other compiled programs should > get -fPIC. I would be happy if somebody could indicate me an example of a > package that handle this well. (In private if it is too trivial ; let's all > cooperate to reduce the traffic on this list). I don't have any examples of handling this "well" - having to fPIC-enable your libraries is always a suboptimal choice. :) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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