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 02:32:16PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> 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.
I thought we were but I just checked the specfile and it turns out we
aren't.
> > 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?
Because of our policy ...
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/WhyUpstream
In particular I could do it if INRIA said that they would support the
change in some future release (see the exception "Patches Heading
Upstream"). But otherwise this is quite a large ABI change -- if
Fedora users started to build lots of 64 bit shared libraries linked
with -lcamlrun I could end up maintaining it separately forever.
Rich.
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Richard Jones
Red Hat
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