Bug#100346: seconding this proposal
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. ;-)
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