Hello, Some time ago, I realized that espeakup-udeb needs to be rebuilt on each new upstream libespeak upload, because libespeak needs an exact match between the library version and the data version, and espeakup is linked statically against libespeak. So whenever we get a new upstream version of the espeak-data-udeb package, we have to relink espeakup statically against the corresponding libespeak.a.
Since this is an unfortunate thing, I considered rather linking libespeak.so statically and ship it into a libespeak-udeb package, which would thus be upgraded at the same time as espeak-data. Linking a library statically is however way more involved: one needs the -fPIC .o files of the libraries being linked in. It happens that libespeak uses libsonic, libportaudio, and libjack. We could either - introduce libsonic-pic, libportaudio-pic, libjack-pic built with -fPIC - introduce libsonic-udeb, libportaudio-udeb, libjack-udeb, and just use normal dynamic linking. That would however eat more space. Currently, espeakup is about 470KiB big on amd64 A quick build of -Os versions of the libraries on amd64 gives: - espeakup: ~20KiB - libespeak.so: 235KiB - libsonic.so: 14KiB - libportaudio.so: 165KiB - libjack.so: 80KiB So it wouldn't eat much more space. So shall we go with introducing 3 more -udeb libraries? Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140522001551.gs5...@type.youpi.perso.aquilenet.fr
