[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

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



On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 02:02:26AM +0100, Michel D?nzer scrawled:
> On Die, 2003-01-14 at 00:06, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > 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.

Why?

> > 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?

Er, I meant "in 4.2".

> > Xinerama isn't *desperately* needed.
> 
> I'm not sure if GNOME2 users with Xinerama would agree.

It can wait until 4.3, IMHO. What, by the way, is the problem?

-- 
Daniel Stone                                     <dstone@trinity.unimelb.edu.au>
Developer, Trinity College, University of Melbourne

Attachment: pgpNpCDfRuk86.pgp
Description: PGP signature


Reply to: