Package: ruby1.8 Version: 1.8.7.352-2 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
Please consider to enable shared librearies support for amd64 since current settings prevent some gems to build correctly. For instance the installation of libnet4r stops with this error: # gem install libnet4r ... output remove for convenience ... -dynamic -lruby1.8 -lpthread -lrt -ldl -lcrypt -lm -lc ../libnet/src/libnet.a /usr/bin/ld: ../libnet/src/libnet.a(libnet_build_802.1q.o): relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC ../libnet/src/libnet.a: could not read symbols: Bad value collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [libnet4r.so] Error 1 -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages ruby1.8 depends on: ii libc6 2.13-32 ii libruby1.8 1.8.7.352-2 ruby1.8 recommends no packages. Versions of packages ruby1.8 suggests: pn ri1.8 <none> pn ruby1.8-examples <none> -- no debconf information
