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



On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:17:00PM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> No I don't actually.  It's strange because I didn't hit this bug at
> all when compiling ocamlnet for Fedora.

Are you building the Apache connector? The bug manifests itself only if
you're building that, and only on architecture in which PIC code is
actually different than non-PIC code.

> 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.

Why?

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

Well, nobody replied to the bug report, so I don't think pinging there
will be useful. The only other possible step is to raise the problem on
the caml mailing list, what do you think?

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