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Re: Packaging a shared library with non-PIC assembly



On Monday 11 July 2005 02:22 pm, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 01:28:00PM -0400, Ryan Schultz wrote:
> > I went ahead and backported all of the 0.0.4 changes into the 0.0.3 code
> > (to keep the shipped OpenSPC code), and I'm still working out some of the
> > kinks (I do believe that the GNU autotools hate me) but it's otherwise
> > working.
> >
> > BTW, where is this bit about PIC at in the Policy? I looked through the
> > Shared Library section but I couldn't find anything...
>
> It's currently only in the release team's rc policy. Both documents
> got a bit out of sync lately... Hopefully with the new members in the
> policy team we can fix that in the near future. As non-PIC libs cause
> FTBFS on some arches it is almost always a RC bug anyway, policy or not.
>
> Gruesse,

Well, libopenspc will FTBFS on all arches but i386, since the core is a bunch 
of x86 ASM written by hand, so I've set it to Architecture: i386 in 
debian/control. Is this the right thing to do? If I do this, can I safely 
override the PIC lintian error? 
-- 
Ryan Schultz
-> floating point exception: divide by cucumber

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