Bug#662998: debian-policy: stripping static libraries

2016-11-20 Thread Paul Wise
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 23:03:59 +0100 Jakub Wilk wrote: > Can we make stripping static libraries a Policy “should”? I note that Fedora is going the opposite way. They are currently stripping static libraries and are moving towards not stripping: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/StaticLibraryDe

Bug#837478: Static libraries - PIC or PIE?

2016-11-20 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 07:12:19PM -0700, Phillip Hellewell wrote: > Consider this use case for an end user with 64-bit Debian 9: > - Compiles an executable with gcc, linking a few libraries like ICU, > openssl, bz2, etc. Works fine. > - Now tries to link a few of the libraries statically