ELF and fpic

Can someone who knows a bit about elf and fpic tell me when do you use fpic? Is it just for compiling shared libraries or what? What compiler options should we be using for compiling stuff under elf? Andrew -- Dehydration - 34%, Recollection of previous evening - 2%, embarrassment factor - 91%.

Bug#1875: sudo problem

Package: sudo Version: 2.0pl1-20 Craig Sanders writes: BTW, where should I send bug reports to? debian-user isn't the right place, of course. Read /usr/doc/bug-reporting.txt |- Message log follows: -| no valid recipients were found for

Stupid elf migration questions?

I just performed a new debian installation on an extra partition on my drive using the stuff from debian-1.0 and the new elf packages so I might be able to help with some development, and I had a couple of hitches. Is there any readme about moving to elf (i.e. should I RTFM)? Anyway, I noticed

ELF migration: some answers

Note: when I talk about packages here, I don't mean packages in general, but only development packages (like compiler, linker, binary utilities etc). Q What are The Fine Manuals? A * 'ELF: From The Programmer's Perspective by H.J. Lu. HTML version near http://www.debian.org/Documentation

libtermcap - where is it?

Hi, I am working on converting to ELF so that I can rebuild the few packages I maintain. The conversion seems to have gone fine, however, when I build tin, it is trying to link with libtermcap.a. I have installed libc4, but should I be using this termcap library? Or should there be one in

Re: Stupid elf migration questions?

I just performed a new debian installation on an extra partition on my drive using the stuff from debian-1.0 and the new elf packages so I might be able to help with some development, and I had a couple of hitches. Is there any readme about moving to elf (i.e. should I RTFM)? No, but there

Bug#1858: kpathsea package does not install or maintain an ls-R database

Ian Jackson writes: Matt Swift writes: # ensure proper permissions and ownership chown --recursive root:texmf $DIRS chmod --recursive ug=rwX,o=rX $DIRS Our packaging guidelines say that the things should be owned by root.root in general. Is there a good reason to use a new

Re: Stupid elf migration questions?

D == David Engel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: D No, but there was some info in my package announcement. I'll D upload it as elf-announce. Does anyone want to write up something D more substantial? Documentation is not my strong suit and I will D also be going out of town soon (convenient eh?).

Bug#1876: trn installation bugs

Package: trn Version: 3.6 Revision: 2 The postinst lacks a $: *** trn.postinst.oldMon Nov 20 16:28:04 1995 --- trn.postinstMon Nov 20 16:28:22 1995 *** *** 18,21 read server ! echo server news/server --- 18,21 read server ! echo $server news/server But

New developer looking for packages

Hi, I have recently joined this list, and I am not sure what the protocols are yet, so please go easy on me. I have been on the user list for a long time, but have only recently installed debian, and (finally) I would like to contribute to the project. Since time is the major