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Re: Packaging a shared library with non-PIC assembly



On Tuesday 12 July 2005 05:44 am, Frank Lichtenheld wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 03:13:47PM -0400, Ryan Schultz wrote:
> > Well, libopenspc will FTBFS on all arches but i386, since the core is a
> > bunch of x86 ASM written by hand, so I've set it to Architecture: i386 in
> > debian/control. Is this the right thing to do? If I do this, can I safely
> > override the PIC lintian error?
>
> As the library is i386 only (with little chance of getting ported) and
> missing PIC doesn't cause problems on i386 but only on other
> architectures AFAIK I (in my function as member of the release team)
> see no problem to ignore that error (CCed to -release for
> documentation) and to therefor install an override for it.
>
> Gruesse,

Got it. Thank you very much. I'm going to polish these packages up and RFS 
now :- )
-- 
Ryan Schultz
-> floating point exception: divide by cucumber

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