Dear all, as per Policy § 10.2, I would like to know if everybody agrees if I change the libbam-dev package to compile libbam.a with -fPIC. Without this it is not possible to compile on amd64 the Bio::SamTools Perl library which I am packaging (http://bugs.debian.org/543488). This is documented in the Perl library’s README and I confirmed it on my amd64 computer. http://cpansearch.perl.org/src/LDS/Bio-SamTools-1.03/README
Note that samtools/libbam-dev was just accepted this night so it may not yet be in your favorite mirrors. but you can find the source package in the Debian Med Subversion repository: svn://svn.debian.org/svn/debian-med/trunk/packages/samtools/trunk/ If I understood well, only libbam.a and not the other compiled programs should get -fPIC. I would be happy if somebody could indicate me an example of a package that handle this well. (In private if it is too trivial ; let's all cooperate to reduce the traffic on this list). Have a nice week-end, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
