* Florian Weimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [050609 15:16]: > * Andreas Barth: > > About: > > Shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and normally static > > libraries must not be. If you need to provide static libraries > > compiled with -fPIC, call it "<libname>_pic.a". > > > > There was some discussion last year about a library that was compiled > > w/o PIC on i386 to better utilze the few registers (and that was > > reasonable faster). We might want to switch that for that reason to a > > "-fPIC on !i386, ...". Of course, that probably needs some technical > > discussions. > Wouldn't it be sufficient to defer to generic policy on this one? PIC > library/DSO support is mostly a C/C++-specific domain, and not > everything that Debian ships is written in C/C++ or some scripting > language.
Do we have such a policy available? In general, doing that might be a good step, yes. Cheers, Andi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
