Bug#176070: marked as forwarded (svgalibg1: contains non-PIC shared library)

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regarding svgalibg1: contains non-PIC shared library
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From: Matej Vela <vela@debian.org>
To: linux-svgalib@svgalib.org
Cc: 176070-forwarded@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Prelinking svgalib programs
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Hi,

The prelink utility from <ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink/>
doesn't work for svgalib programs:

  # prelink /usr/bin/zgv
  prelink: /usr/bin/zgv: Cannot prelink against non-PIC shared library
  /usr/lib/libvga.so.1

This is caused by the following rule in src/Makefile:

  #lrmi must NOT be compiled as -fPIC
  lrmi.o: lrmi.c
          $(CC) $(CFLAGS:-fPIC=) -c -o $@ $<

There's an #ifdef __PIC__ in lrmi.c; is the above a leftover?  When I
comment it out, prelink works like a charm.

Thanks,

Matej