Re: Bug#444360: ocamlnet_2.2.8.1-3(hppa/experimental): FTBFS: tries to link non-PIC static object into shared object

[Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 12:59:20PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:59:45AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > Aaaarggh, right! IIRC that's an upstream issue for which exists a patch
> > (by Richard Jones maybe ...), isn't it? What about applying it in the
> > OCaml Debian package?
> 
> Yep, that was the case, here is a link to the corresponding entry in the
> caml BTS: http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3866 .
> 
> Apparently upstream do not care a lot about this issue, but I think the
> final solution hinted by Richard is the right one: leave libcarmlrun.a
> as it is and additionally provide a libcamlrun_shared.so which we can
> use where PIC code is required.
> 
> Any comments / objection to add something like that to the ocaml package
> in Debian?
> 
> Richard: do you perhaps already have a patch for this in Red Hat?

No I don't actually.  It's strange because I didn't hit this bug at
all when compiling ocamlnet for Fedora.

Unfortunately Fedora policy stops me from incorporating this fix:
http://caml.inria.fr/mantis/view.php?id=3866
into our OCaml.  It would have to be accepted into upstream (INRIA's)
OCaml first.

But it's desperately needed, so please vote for INRIA to include it :-)

Rich.

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Richard Jones
Red Hat