[cc-ing boot-floppies team to let them know]
On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:44:43PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've rejected this patch, for two reasons.
>
> (1) It's not needed any more since you can now configure e2fsprogs to
> generate a "lite" version of libext2fs.so.2.4.
OK I'll replace that with with an e2fsprogs-bf package.
> (2) The patch is busted (not correct). The object files being placed
> into the libext2fs_pic.a file are the non-shareable .o files, not
> the PIC .o files. You need to cd into the elfshared subdirectory to
> get at the PIC files, and the Makefile fragment doesn't do that.
Woops... I should really read how vars are used before assuming they
hold a full path to files... :}
> I've left the _pic rules in the debian subdirectory, but in my opinion
> those should replaced with rules that do a separate build in a second
> directory using the --disable-swapfs, --disable-debugfs, et. al. flags.
You might as well remove the refs to *pic from the control and rules
files, or the build will fail because of the missing pic targets in
the Makefile's.
Regards,
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