On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Adrian Bunk <b...@stusta.de> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 06:22:36AM -0700, tony mancill wrote: >> Hi Adrian, > > Hi Tony, > >> Balint requested that the antlr package drop the separate >> libantlr-pic.a and the non-PIC libantlr.a currently shipped. This >> requires a change to debian/rules, and so is sourceful. >>... > > what Balint wanted is related to his proposed #837478 policy change, > currently policy says that static libraries should usually not contain > PIC code. > > It is *not* required to recompile static libraries with -fPIC > for fixing the PIE build of binaries like gpt or sqlitebrowser. > > A binNMU recompiling libantlr.a with -fPIE is sufficient.
I see. Thank you for the clarification. Cheers, tony
