On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 10:02:16PM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote: > On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 12:22:54PM +0200, Frank Lichtenheld wrote: > > your package failed to build from source, because you tried to link a > > static library compiled without -fPIC into a shared library compiled > > with -fPIC. That doesn't work. You will need a version of this static > > library compiled with -fPIC. > > Policy 10.2 requires static libraries not to be built with -fPIC. This does > not seem to work on 64bit archs though (is hppa a 64bit architecture)? This > problem has already been reported (see #358637). > > I'm not quite sure yet if that's a general problem on non 32bit architectures. > In that case the policy should be changed in this respect. I need to do > further investigations before. > > To temporarily work around this issue, I will disable the plugins causing that > kind of problems on hppa (as I'm already doing on other 64bit architectures).
You can build static libraries without -fPIC just fine, you just can link it together with another object that is compiled with -fPIC. The correct solution for this is to have a version of the static library compiled with -fPIC in addition to the one compiled without. We had this in the past for e.g. xlibs, don't know what a current example would be. i386 doesn't seem to care about the PIC/non-PIC thing, I'm not toolchain expert enough to tell why. hppa on the other hand is very picky about it (it is a 32bit architecture, BTW, at least in userland) Gruesse, -- Frank Lichtenheld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www: http://www.djpig.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
