Bug#175996: xlibs-pic: needs to provide more libraries

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Die, 2003-01-14 at 00:06, Daniel Stone wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 03:13:56PM +0100, Michel D?nzer scrawled:
> > Here's a quick'n'dirty list of libraries for which only static versions are
> > available, but no corresponding _pic variant:
> > 
> > libFS
> > libXau
> > libXdmcp
> > libXfont
> > libXfontcache
> > libXinerama
> > libXss
> > libXxf86misc
> > libXxf86rush
> > libfntstubs
> > libfontenc
> > liboldX
> > libxf86config
> > libxkbfile
> > libxkbui
> > 
> > As you can see in bug #175923, at least libXinerama_pic is desperately
> > needed. Is there any reason not to provide a _pic variant for all of these?
> 
> In 4.3, all static libraries with no corresponding shared version are
> built with PIC anyway,

I know, but this is needed now, not whenever 4.3.0 packages happen to
enter the archive. I was hoping for this to make 4.2.1-5.

> and the xlibs-pic package no longer exists. However, a change like this 
> would probably be too intrusive to bother with in 4.3. 

Huh? No change needed when they're built with -fPIC anyway?

> Xinerama isn't *desperately* needed.

I'm not sure if GNOME2 users with Xinerama would agree.


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