Bug#329762: Relaxation and documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Marco d'Itri <md@Linux.IT> writes:
> On Sep 23, Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr> wrote:

>> They are certainly no good reason to _allow_ it. This breaks common

> Actually I am almost sure that there are some situations in which PIC
> static libraries are useful, but I cannot provide examples right now.

Upstreams who don't maintain a stable ABI for their libraries, but for
which there are external Perl bindings.  Perl modules must use only PIC
code, but one doesn't want to generate regular shared library packages
without a stable ABI.

I'm in exactly this situation with AFS, and it's why the AFS Perl bindings
aren't in Debian yet.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>