Re: why glib/gtk 2.2 gnome 2.2?
severity 175923 serious
thanks
I think this is a serious bug at least because policy requires all
shared objects to be built with -fPIC.
This breaks a lot of apps like
/usr/lib/gconf2/gconf-sanity-check-2: error while loading shared
libraries: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at
0x0fcb1b24 for symbol `_visibility_state_get_type' out of range
(which means GNOME doesn't start)
on powerpc at least, probably most architectures except i386.
It's caused by static X libraries (in particular libXinerama in
gtk+2.0-2.2.0/build-tree/gtk+-2.2.0-shared/gdk) being linked into shared
objects (verified by building libXinerama.a with -fPIC and linking
libgdk-x11-2 to that locally), unfortunately xlibs-pic doesn't provide
that one yet, I'm going to submit a bug about that.
Please keep me CC:'d on updates to this bug.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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