severity 175923 serious thanks
I think this is a serious bug at least because policy requires all shared objects to be built with -fPIC. This breaks a lot of apps like /usr/lib/gconf2/gconf-sanity-check-2: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: R_PPC_REL24 relocation at 0x0fcb1b24 for symbol `_visibility_state_get_type' out of range (which means GNOME doesn't start) on powerpc at least, probably most architectures except i386. It's caused by static X libraries (in particular libXinerama in gtk+2.0-2.2.0/build-tree/gtk+-2.2.0-shared/gdk) being linked into shared objects (verified by building libXinerama.a with -fPIC and linking libgdk-x11-2 to that locally), unfortunately xlibs-pic doesn't provide that one yet, I'm going to submit a bug about that. Please keep me CC:'d on updates to this bug. -- Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
