Bug#361219: patch

2006-04-07 Thread Bastian Blank
tags 361219 patch thanks The attached patch makes the build always use -fPIC. Bastian -- Violence in reality is quite different from theory. -- Spock, "The Cloud Minders", stardate 5818.4 diff -u r-base-2.2.1.svn37642/debian/changelog r-base-2.2.1.svn37642/debian/changelog ---

Bug#361219: patch

2006-04-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Kurt: Here is the patch. Bastian: http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=r-base shows builds succeeding everywhere but s390 [and m68k at the very end which looks like a local issue: dh_fixperms just died...] I am still a bit suspicious of your brute force replacement of -fpic. Or do you know f

Bug#361219: patch

2006-04-07 Thread Bastian Blank
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 06:27:25AM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: >I am still a bit suspicious of your > brute force replacement of -fpic. Or do you know for sure that gcc 4.* > requires it? Should it then be conditional on gcc/g++ versions be larger > tha

Bug#361219: patch

2006-04-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
[ Let's PLEASE all keep the mail headers in tact. My bad for not including Brian earlier, so if possible could all future mails please include Bastian, Dirk, Kurt, Brian and the BTS as for this mail ? ] [ Bastian, I'll send you two emails by Brian. Please consider those before replying. We may

Bug#361219: patch

2006-04-07 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
Dirk, [I didn't get reusable headers from Kurt as he forwarded an attachment.] This was changed based on quite explicit advice in Ulrich Drepper's DSO paper to use -fpic wherever possible as it can be lot faster. See http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf, e.g. `-fpic should be used at a

Bug#361219: patch

2006-04-07 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
Hi Brian, On 7 April 2006 at 15:40, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | Dirk, | | [I didn't get reusable headers from Kurt as he forwarded an attachment.] (Sure, I was just trying to streamline between Bastian, Kurt and myself seemingly emailing at the same time...) | | This was changed based on quite

Bug#361219: patch

2006-04-08 Thread Prof Brian D Ripley
On Fri, 7 Apr 2006, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Hi Brian, On 7 April 2006 at 15:40, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: | Dirk, | | [I didn't get reusable headers from Kurt as he forwarded an attachment.] (Sure, I was just trying to streamline between Bastian, Kurt and myself seemingly emailing at the same

Bug#361219: patch

2006-04-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 April 2006 at 08:08, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote: | > So what shall we do? I would be happy to try either one of the two | > approaches you suggest to see what s390 does with it. | | Yesterday I added s390* to the list of platforms which need -fPIC in | configure. The problem ought to be so

Bug#361219: patch

2006-04-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 April 2006 at 05:58, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 8 April 2006 at 08:08, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote: | | > So what shall we do? I would be happy to try either one of the two | | > approaches you suggest to see what s390 does with it. | | | | Yesterday I added s390* to the list of platfor

Bug#361219: patch

2006-04-08 Thread Dirk Eddelbuettel
On 8 April 2006 at 10:27, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | On 8 April 2006 at 05:58, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: | | | | On 8 April 2006 at 08:08, Prof Brian D Ripley wrote: | | | > So what shall we do? I would be happy to try either one of the two | | | > approaches you suggest to see what s390 does