Marco d'Itri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sep 23, Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> They are certainly no good reason to _allow_ it. This breaks common > Actually I am almost sure that there are some situations in which PIC > static libraries are useful, but I cannot provide examples right now. Upstreams who don't maintain a stable ABI for their libraries, but for which there are external Perl bindings. Perl modules must use only PIC code, but one doesn't want to generate regular shared library packages without a stable ABI. I'm in exactly this situation with AFS, and it's why the AFS Perl bindings aren't in Debian yet. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
