On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 12:08:05PM +0200, John Wright wrote: > Package: libdw-dev > Version: 0.141-2 > Severity: wishlist > > Hello, > > I'm working on getting makedumpfile ready to upload to Debian. The > upstream Makefile builds makedumpfile statically, so that it can be > easily included in an initramfs. The only library it needs that isn't > available statically now is libdw. I notice you removed the static > library in version 0.141-1; would it be possible to bring it back?
Note that libdw1 contains a whole bunch of shared libraries which can be dynamicly loaded, and you probably need atleast one of them. Upstream does not provide them staticly. I suggest you look at doing this with the shared version instead, I don't see an advantage of doing it staticly. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org