Bug#426710: Build with -fPIC and add libkpathsea4 Depends to libkpathsea-dev

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hello Frank,
>
> On Mi, 2007-05-30 at 17:20 +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> That the -dev package is missing a Depends on the library is a bug for
>> sure.  But I'm not sure about the rest, and the validity of the patch.  
>
> You're entirely right. I just checked with the Debian version of
> texlive-bin. All seems well now.

I've been told on IRC that if the .so symlink points to a missing file,
the .a file is taken as a fallback.  That explains how the build
failed.  

Whether it make any sense to have PIC code in a .a file has been debated
lively after I asked, I'm not sure there was a consensus.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)