Thanks bug reading bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684116 it seems the Debian maintainer disagrees with the change, unsubscribing sponsors until that's resolved, no need to have the discussion in 2 different bug trackers
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #684116 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684116 ** Also affects: suitesparse (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=684116 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: suitesparse (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to suitesparse in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1319687 Title: SuiteSparse fails to link in shared library due to missing -fPIC in libsuitesparseconfig.a Status in suitesparse package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in suitesparse package in Debian: Unknown Bug description: The config library is only available as a .a which is not compiled with -fPIC. Thus, linking into shared libraries fails on AMD64. Attaching a minimal program to trigger the bug. gcc -shared -fPIC -o test.so suitetest.cpp -lumfpack -lsuitesparseconfig To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/suitesparse/+bug/1319687/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
