Re: Why kdelibs4-dev and XFree86 4.3.0 don't play nice together (was: Re: xlibs-pic)
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 02:25, John Gay wrote:
>
> >> And why are static lib's being linked into shared objects?
> >
> >Because some shared libraries (or plugins, or whatever) use some X
> >extension libraries which are only available in static form. But non-PIC
> >code in a shared object is a bad idea, it (like so many things...) only
> >works on i386 (and maybe some other architectures) by coincidence. On
> >other architectures, this causes build or run time errors.
> >
> So the real problem is that XFree86 should be providing shared versions of
> these libraries that can be compiled with -fPIC and linked into shared
> objects properly? I suppose that's one of those 'easier said than done'
> things.
Indeed, that would be one solution, but nobody seems to be prepared to
maintain the interfaces of those libraries. The other solution is to
provide non-PIC and PIC versions of those libraries, which Branden has
implemented for xlibs-pic.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer \ Debian (powerpc), XFree86 and DRI developer
Software libre enthusiast \ http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=daenzer
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