Hi Werner:

Could you comment on the general reasons why libplplotdmd is built as static
only?

I locally tried a shared build and ran into trouble with
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.1.3/libgphobos.a on Debian Lenny which had
not been compiled with -fPIC (so obviously could not be linked by a shared
version of libplplotdmd).  I have submitted a bug report to Debian about
this issue (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=530005).

Is this just a Debian Lenny packaging issue (compile the objects in
libgphobos with position-independent code) or is this a more general problem
that will require libplplotdmd to be built as a static library into the
indefinite future?

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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