Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-25 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* dann frazier | 2009-03-17 18:57:24 [-0600]: I tested the initial patch on paer.debian.org, a parisc machine. oh. why that? Could please post a build log? -fPIC has to fix the issues. It is possible that I forgot it somewhere. I found that it didn't work. However, this one did: ---

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-25 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Trent W. Buck | 2009-03-21 21:38:14 [+1100]: From IRC: kalikiana Regarding -fPIC, I don't really see how I could avoid it. kalikiana If somebody finds it wrong, I would really like to know an kalikiana alternative because it is needed for linking extensions. twb I looked at the Debian Policy

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-25 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:29:56AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: +CFLAGS=-fPIC ./waf --nocache configure --prefix=/usr this is not cool because now -fPIC is also used for midori binary itself. Please help me to understand why it's bad to use -fPIC for the binary itself. So I

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-25 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:45:34AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: kalikiana I also have a reason to not use it actually, which is that kalikiana for instance on x86-32 it makes the application slower. twb OK, Debian says that reason is not good enough for Debian. twb

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-25 Thread Julien Cristau
On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 09:45 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: The problem here is that it is not just a library. libkatze itself is a .a static library which is merged into midori and this is fine. But it is also merged into a few add-ons which are .so and that's where you need the -fPIC

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-25 Thread Luk Claes
Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 09:45 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: The problem here is that it is not just a library. libkatze itself is a .a static library which is merged into midori and this is fine. But it is also merged into a few add-ons which are .so and that's

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-25 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Luk Claes | 2009-03-25 19:17:57 [+0100]: Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 09:45 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: The problem here is that it is not just a library. libkatze itself is a .a static library which is merged into midori and this is fine. But it is also merged

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-25 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Trent W. Buck | 2009-03-25 20:10:22 [+1100]: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:29:56AM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: + CFLAGS=-fPIC ./waf --nocache configure --prefix=/usr this is not cool because now -fPIC is also used for midori binary itself. Please help me to understand why it's

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-25 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
* Luk Claes | 2009-03-25 19:17:57 [+0100]: Julien Cristau wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 09:45 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: The problem here is that it is not just a library. libkatze itself is a .a static library which is merged into midori and this is fine. But it is also merged

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-21 Thread Trent W. Buck
From IRC: kalikiana Regarding -fPIC, I don't really see how I could avoid it. kalikiana If somebody finds it wrong, I would really like to know an kalikiana alternative because it is needed for linking extensions. twb I looked at the Debian Policy manual again, and it says -fPIC twb *must* be

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-17 Thread dann frazier
I tested the initial patch on paer.debian.org, a parisc machine. I found that it didn't work. However, this one did: --- midori-0.1.4/debian/rules.orig 2009-03-18 00:47:05.0 + +++ midori-0.1.4/debian/rules 2009-03-18 00:45:01.0 + @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ build: dh

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:57:24PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: I tested the initial patch on paer.debian.org, a parisc machine. I found that it didn't work. However, this one did: - ./waf --nocache configure --prefix=/usr + CFLAGS=-fPIC ./waf --nocache configure --prefix=/usr Yes, but

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-17 Thread dann frazier
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:49:49PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:57:24PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: I tested the initial patch on paer.debian.org, a parisc machine. I found that it didn't work. However, this one did: - ./waf --nocache configure --prefix=/usr +

Bug#518281: patch insufficient

2009-03-17 Thread Trent W. Buck
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:27:33PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 12:49:49PM +1100, Trent W. Buck wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 06:57:24PM -0600, dann frazier wrote: I tested the initial patch on paer.debian.org, a parisc machine. I found that it didn't work. However, this