* Branden Robinson (branden@debian.org) wrote: > 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). Well it makes my package unbuildable on a variety of architectures so there is a somewhat urgent need for it I suppose. So if there is a 4.2.1-9 and you could get that change in that would be great. Otherwise I'm perfectly content to wait for 4.3.0. > > 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. Ah, thanks for the answer. Go team X Strike Force! :) -- Eric Dorland <eric.dorland@mail.mcgill.ca> ICQ: #61138586, Jabber: hooty@jabber.com 1024D/16D970C6 097C 4861 9934 27A0 8E1C 2B0A 61E9 8ECF 16D9 70C6 -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s++: a-- C+++ UL+++ P++ L++ E++ W++ N+ o K- w+ O? M++ V-- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5++ X+ R tv++ b+++ DI+ D+ G e h! r- y+ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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