On Die, 2003-01-14 at 00:06, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 03:13:56PM +0100, Michel D?nzer scrawled: > > Here's a quick'n'dirty list of libraries for which only static versions are > > available, but no corresponding _pic variant: > > > > libFS > > libXau > > libXdmcp > > libXfont > > libXfontcache > > libXinerama > > libXss > > libXxf86misc > > libXxf86rush > > libfntstubs > > libfontenc > > liboldX > > libxf86config > > libxkbfile > > libxkbui > > > > As you can see in bug #175923, at least libXinerama_pic is desperately > > needed. Is there any reason not to provide a _pic variant for all of these? > > In 4.3, all static libraries with no corresponding shared version are > built with PIC anyway,
I know, but this is needed now, not whenever 4.3.0 packages happen to enter the archive. I was hoping for this to make 4.2.1-5. > and the xlibs-pic package no longer exists. However, a change like this > would probably be too intrusive to bother with in 4.3. Huh? No change needed when they're built with -fPIC anyway? > Xinerama isn't *desperately* needed. I'm not sure if GNOME2 users with Xinerama would agree. -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast