Comment 42 for bug 27942

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 12:28:27 +0100
From: <email address hidden> (Marco d'Itri)
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Policy should require _pic libraries for static-only libraries

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On Jan 06, Nathanael Nerode <email address hidden> wrote:

> Good point. Let's amend policy to require that a _pic.a library be provi=
ded
> for any static-only library; it seems to be an unreasonable omission. I=
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> wouldn't consider a library package which can't be used by any shared lib=
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> to be releasable. Would anyone else?
It's a bit more complex than this, you can find a summary in
http://blog.bofh.it/id_101 .

In this specific case, the solutions should be (in order of priority):
- remove freecdb from the archive, since there are better replacements
  (providing a shared library is enough to make them better, at least)
- make freecdb provide a shared library (which should be easy, and the
  opinion of DJB is not really intersting not relevant for our purposes)
- make freecdb provide a PIC static library

OTOH, the last two points are almost a pointless exercise if there is no
actual shared library which needs to be linked against freecdb.

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ciao,
Marco

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