On 21/02/17 22:47, Seth Arnold wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 10:12:25PM +0100, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
First, I'd thought that Ubuntu 16.04's GCC already generated
position-independent code by default, but was this in fact only introduced
with 16.10 ... ?
Correct, this was changed for 16.10:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/YakketyYak/ReleaseNotes#GCC
OK, thanks for the clarification. So this raises the question ... can/should
snapcraft ensure this option is used when building snap packages?
It's obviously not an issue for most apps, but any snap exposing a development
library in any way is presumably going to risk being unusable on 16.10 or later
if the package author doesn't realize this is necessary.
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