Hi Stefano and Kurt, sorry for the long delay, but I was extremely busy...
Thanks for the bug report. This was actually a more subtle issue, which required the "override" directive in OCamlMakefile to override user-supplied variables. Things should work now as expected (I hope). The new distribution is online. Best regards, Markus On 7/31/05, Kurt Roeckx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:09:12PM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > > > > Dear Markus, > > since I will be away in the next days and I don't want the pcre-ocaml > > debian package to be unbuildable for long I applied a quick and dirty > > patch to OCamlMakefile, which simply passes -fPIC to the building of all > > .o thru ocamlc. There should be a better way ... > > > > Kurt, could you please try it on your amd64 box? > > It works. > > But I'd like to point out Section 10.2 of the policy, that says > that a shared library should be build with -fPIC and a static > library without it. Which means that it needs to be build twice > if you have a shared and static library, which you have. > > The makefile doesn't seem to support this currently and seems to > want to use -fPIC in both cases, which isn't that big of a > problem. > > > Kurt > > -- Markus Mottl http://www.ocaml.info [EMAIL PROTECTED]
