Re: -fPIC, libraries, and overriding a lintian error

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Subject: Re: -fPIC, libraries, and overriding a lintian error
From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:58:01 -0800
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20091125015206.GB19915@connexer.com> ("Roberto C. Sánchez"'s message of "Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:52:07 -0500")
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Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@connexer.com> writes:
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 08:43:12PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:

>> Does that mean that I am permitted to override the lintian error?

> Please disregard.  It turns out that the proposed fix causes a FTBFS on
> amd64, which is not acceptable.  Overriding the lintian error will
> clearly not help that.

You have discovered why it's a Lintian error.  :)

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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