Comment 44 for bug 27942

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 04:12:25 -0800
From: Steve Langasek <email address hidden>
To: Marco d'Itri <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Policy should require _pic libraries for static-only libraries

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On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 12:28:27PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Jan 06, Nathanael Nerode <email address hidden> wrote:

> > Good point. Let's amend policy to require that a _pic.a library be pro=
vided
> > for any static-only library; it seems to be an unreasonable omission. =
I=20
> > wouldn't consider a library package which can't be used by any shared l=
ibrary=20
> > 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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