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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian deleted file mode 100644 index 78daa5e..0000000 --- a/debian/README.Debian +++ /dev/null @@ -1,23 +0,0 @@ - - Starting with version 2.5.31-18 of flex we have started providing - a static library compiled with position independent code, namely, - libfl_pic.a. The problem is with packages that contain shared - libraries with a flex scanner compiled in. Since flex generates code - that is not self contained, and the missing symbols live in - libfl.a. However, since linking a shared library with a object - containing non position independent code stopped working with gcc 4.1 - (apparently, it was sheer luck that it worked at all). So now we also - provide libfl_pic.a for shared library packages to link with. - - An alternative would have been to provide a full fledged - shared library, but that would have been a major break with upstream - and other distributions that also have flex, and would entail - creating new library and devel packages for flex, which is more work - that seems justified (considering that we would have to maintain the - fork, and keep track of any ABI changes, and all that). - - manoj - -arch-tag: 7421b315-d205-4e09-9a81-0fef07ba57b7 - - -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>, Thu, 17 Apr 2014 01:11:31 -0700 |