Package: libc6-dev Version: 2.3.2.ds1-11 Severity: serious Tags: sid Hello
libc6-dev includes several "/usr/lib/lib*.so" files that are needed for building packages but are, maybe accidently, relative instead of absolute symlinks to "/lib/lib*.so.*". This is against the "general" rule in http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s10.5 and due to the fact that /usr is sometimes mountet on a different partition that / i.e. /lib and relative symlinks don't work across partitions (they always go relative from the absolut path i.e. you end up in /mnt/my_usr_and_var/ or similar and not in /) The problem I faced now was that although the package builds fine, the linker silently put a "TEXTREL=0x0" flag inside the shared libraries which markes them as not "PIC" compatible although they are compiled with "-fPIC". This does not comply with our policy as it makes programs like e.g. prelink not working with such libraries. The fix would be simply to replace "../.." by "/" when creating the symlinks. bye, -christian- -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux app109 2.4.23 #1 Sat Dec 6 13:30:13 CET 2003 i686 Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (ignored: LC_ALL set) Versions of packages libc6-dev depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii linux-kernel-headers 2.5.999-test7-bk-15 Linux Kernel Headers for developme -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
