Hello, I'm the maintainer of the libcnf-dev package which is built as a normal .a file. The upstream build system does not know how to generate shilbs. that package is mainly used to create C libraries that are linked from fortran, and they are usually shlibs. dballe builds one such shlib in libdballef2. Now, working on a development branch of dballe on a 64bit machine I found out that dballe cannot link with cnf because cnf isn't built with -fPIC. The dballe currently in testing gets away with it because I forgot to link the fortran library with -lcnf, but applications needing that fortran library would need to add -lcnf. I've uploaded a new cnf to unstable that builds a .a library with -fPIC code. It's a very simple packaging change that just adds -fPIC to the CFLAGS. I'd be grateful if you could have a look and allow the new version (source package cnf 4.0-2, binary package libcnf-dev 4.0-2) into etch. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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