Randolph Chung writes: > > hmm, it's easy to build a libg2c-pic.a library. So I will do this > > instead of building the standard library with pic. Building a shared > > library would introduce a incompatibility to other distros. > > Matthias, > > This might be an issue -- because a generic invocation of g77 won't know > library to link in, libg2c.a or libg2c-pic.a .... (i.e. things like pdl > will need a debian-specific change from upstream to build on debian) > > or am i missing something?
no, but do you know that providing a pic libg2c.a doesn't break anything? it's freeze time. > if you are building separate libraries anyway, is it difficult to just > build non-pic libg2c.a and pic libg2c.so ? Probably not. For the libg2c-pic library, I didn't change anything in the sources. An argument against a shared libg2c is that we get incompatible with other distributions.