On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 03:27:53AM +0200, Hilko Bengen wrote: >I am trying to track down the reason why Sendmail::Milter which are >Perl bindings for Sendmail's Milter library is not building on the >architectures mentioned above. > >The buildd logs can be viewed at ><http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?pkg=libsendmail-milter-perl> and >it appears to me that the reasons why linking fails are the same on >all three platforms--the linker can't create a shared object file from >a static library. Am I reading ld's error message correctly?
The dynamic linker on these architectures requires all objects to be compiled with -fPIC (including those extracted from ar libraries). This doesn't preclude you from linking with libmilter.a, merely that it must be built with -fPIC. >Am I assuming correctly that the linking stage would work fine if >there was a libmilter.so? (No shared library is built from sendmail >source, at the moment.) Presumably, although as noted above you could also ask the sendmail maintainer to build libmilter with -fPIC. --bod -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
