Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Jeff Epler
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 05:19:30PM -0600, Jeff Epler wrote: > * foomodule is a Python wrapper for libfoo, so it must be shipped >as a .so, but if it links libfoo.a, and libfoo.a is not -fPIC, >it is not possible to build foomodule at all > >(The same goes for wrapping the library for

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Russ Allbery
"Bernhard R. Link" writes: > * Russ Allbery [150222 21:51]: >> It won't with something more complex on all architectures. I think >> there are architectures (i386, maybe?) where you can link non-PIC code >> into a shared library with a performance penalty, and (as mentioned by >> another) it do

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Russ Allbery [150222 21:51]: > "Bernhard R. Link" writes: > > > This is wrong. If libbar.so needs libfoo.a then libfoo.a does not > > need to be PIC: > > > echo 'int foo(void) {return 17;}' > foo.c > > echo 'int bar(void) {return foo();}' > bar.c > > echo 'int main() {return bar();}' > main.c

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Simon Richter [150222 21:19]: > Am 22.02.2015 um 20:18 schrieb Bernhard R. Link: > > > echo 'int foo(void) {return 17;}' > foo.c > > This code just happens to not generate any data references, so none of > the forbidden reloc types are emitted. You can add references here. As I do not merge i

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Ian Jackson [150223 20:09]: > Bernhard R. Link writes ("Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable > code?"): > > Jeff Epler [150220 00:19]: > > > * libbar has a stable API, so it should be shipped as a .so, > > >but if it links libfoo.a, and libfoo.a is not -fPIC, then > > >lib

Bug#779055: ITP: owncloud-contacts -- address book with CardDAV support - ownCloud application

2015-02-23 Thread David Prévot
-20150223/002086.html Other applications need packaging, do not hesitate to get in touch with the team if you want to help, I’ll post some RFPs later if nobody beats me to it (and will be happy to sponsor any of the ownCloud related packages from people without upload rights). Regards David

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Ian Jackson writes ("Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?"): > Jeff is correct. ... > That not usually a problem. Providing that only the relevant symbols > are exported from the .so, the executable simply results in multiple > completely independent copies of the static library.

Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?

2015-02-23 Thread Ian Jackson
Bernhard R. Link writes ("Re: Should .a library contains non-reallocatable code?"): > Jeff Epler [150220 00:19]: > > * libbar has a stable API, so it should be shipped as a .so, > >but if it links libfoo.a, and libfoo.a is not -fPIC, then > >libbar has to be shipped as a a static library

Bug#779039: ITP: labltk -- OCaml bindings to Tcl/Tk

2015-02-23 Thread Stéphane Glondu
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: "Stéphane Glondu" * Package name: labltk Version : 8.06.0 Upstream Author : Inria * URL : https://forge.ocamlcore.org/projects/labltk/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: C, OCaml Description : OCaml bindings to Tc

Re: jessie for x32

2015-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:59:17PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 05:00:30PM +, Colin Watson wrote: > > the simplest procedure I've found involves going via 7.8 (yes, really). > > But I bootstrapped ghc successfully that way on arm64 and ppc64el, and I > > can probably r

Re: jessie for x32

2015-02-23 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 03:56:20AM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > * no libreoffice: java toolchain has JNI issues There's --without-java. Might work or not, doubt many people use it these days. (As long as baseline is 1.5 I can still use gcj...) But I'd be surprised if it worked even then, yo

Bug#779031: ITP: libwww-shorten-simple-perl -- Factory wrapper around WWW::Shorten to avoid imports

2015-02-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libwww-shorten-simple-perl Version : 0.01 Upstream Author : Tatsuhiko Miyagawa * URL : https://metacpan.org/release/WWW-Sh

Bug#779027: ITP: libdist-zilla-plugin-twitter-perl -- Twitter when you release with Dist::Zilla

2015-02-23 Thread Dominique Dumont
Package: wnpp Owner: Dominique Dumont Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org,debian-p...@lists.debian.org * Package name: libdist-zilla-plugin-twitter-perl Version : 0.026 Upstream Author : David Golden , Mike Doherty * URL : https://metacpan.

Bug#779014: ITP: subread -- toolkit for processing next-gen sequencing data

2015-02-23 Thread Alex Mestiashvili
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Alexandre Mestiashvili X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-...@lists.debian.org * Package name: subread Version : 1.4.6-p1 Upstream Author : shi at wehi dot edu dot au * URL : http://subread.sourceforge.net/ * Li