On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:20:44PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > I've packaged XCB <http://xcb.wiki.cs.pdx.edu/>, but I was in > violation of policy because the shared libraries were not compiled > with -fPIC. I fixed that but unfortunately the lib uses libXau which > only comes in a static non-pic flavor. Is there any way to get a pic > version of libXau in xlibs-pic for the next version? If by "next version" you mean the 4.3.0 packages, yes. If you have urgent needs and if there is a 4.2.1-9 release, it should be feasible to get libXau into xlibs-pic. Please let us know if this is the case (that is, that you have urgent needs). > Oh a related note, why aren't all the static libs compiled with pic > versions? Is libXau not to be used, or replaced by something else? The answer to your second question can be found in the package description of xlibs-pic. I've been adding static libraries to xlibs-pic on an as-needed basis. But since upstream decided to enable PIC symbols on all static libraries prior to the release of 4.3.0, that conservatism is no longer warranted. -- G. Branden Robinson | The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I branden@debian.org | installed Linux. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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