Daniel Holbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Frank, > > On Mi, 2007-05-30 at 17:20 +0200, Frank Küster wrote: >> That the -dev package is missing a Depends on the library is a bug for >> sure. But I'm not sure about the rest, and the validity of the patch. > > You're entirely right. I just checked with the Debian version of > texlive-bin. All seems well now.
I've been told on IRC that if the .so symlink points to a missing file, the .a file is taken as a fallback. That explains how the build failed. Whether it make any sense to have PIC code in a .a file has been debated lively after I asked, I'm not sure there was a consensus. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
