Bug#100346: seconding this proposal

[Florian Weimer <Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE>]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

> I hereby second this proposal.
> 
> The original proposer did not supply any proposed textual changes to
> policy, so I suggest the following as replacement text for the first
> paragraph of 11.2:

Thanks.  I'm not familiar with the policy revision process.  Is there
some documentation for it?

| The shared version must be compiled with -fPIC, and the static version must
| not be. In other words, each *.c file will need to be compiled twice.

IMHO, it makes sense to drop this C reference as well, if we are in
the process of changing the section.

In addition, there are some architectures where all code is position
independent, so -fPIC is a noop, and others, where -fPIC is less
efficient then -fpic.

OTOH, the additions look okay to me.

> If the original submitter (Florian Weimer) objects to the above language,
> please speak up.

I'm glad someone picked this up who has more experience in this
field. ;-)

-- 
Florian Weimer 	                  Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE
University of Stuttgart           http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/
RUS-CERT                          +49-711-685-5973/fax +49-711-685-5898