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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian new file mode 100644 index 0000000..78daa5e --- /dev/null +++ b/debian/README.Debian @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ + + 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 |