On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 21:18 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > Pierre & Johannes, > > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 20:13 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > Package: src:scotch > > Version: 5.1.11.dfsg-5 > > Severity: serious > > Justification: causes other packages to FTBFS > > X-DebBugs-CC: gladky.an...@gmail.com > > > > Greetings, > > > > In the last upload or two, the scotch package has lost its inter-library > > linkages. libscotchmetis should be linked -lscotch, and libscotch > > should be linked -lscotcherr and a couple of others, but they're not. > > I'm afraid this sends us back to the drawing board. We can't simply use > "AR = gcc ..." to build shared libraries because they need to link to > each other. > > What were the reasons for building this way again? I can see that it's > helpful to build the static libraries without -fPIC, but one can do this > by building .lo objects with -fPIC and making the shared libs with > those, like libtool does. > > I'm afraid I'm going to have to revert much of the recent work to -4 and > try to fix its problems a different way...
Just put a fix in alioth, let me know if it gives you trouble. I plan to upload within 4-5 hours. -Adam -- GPG fingerprint: D54D 1AEE B11C CE9B A02B C5DD 526F 01E8 564E E4B6 Engineering consulting with open source tools http://www.opennovation.com/
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