Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> Hi Luk,
> 
> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 07:20:08PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
>> Package: quantlib-swig
>> Severity: serious
>> Version: 0.3.14-1
>>
>> Hi
>>
>> Your package fails to build from source on mips and mipsel due to relocation
>> errors according to the build logs. Note that this indicates that some part 
>> of
>> the code (or library build dependencies) might not be compiled with the PIC
>> (Position Independent Code) flag enabled...
> 
> Could that not also be indicative of a bug in the toolchain?  After all,
> 
> i)  it used to build on these arches with the same flags, build-depends, ...

New upstream versions... you might want to test compiling 0.3.13 with current
build dependencies?

> ii) it builds on the other arches

relocation errors are more likely to occur on mips than on other
architectures, because it's more strict in this regard.

> What do you think?

I think a toolchain bug is unlikely, though maybe it's caused by quantlib or
boost.

Cheers

Luk


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