Packages with optflags and/or debuginfo issues

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Wed Jan 31 08:46:33 UTC 2007


Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 08:51:19AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Why o why? It isn't that hard to patch upstream's makefiles to create 
>> .so 's and get all the benefits of those (including working debugging).
>>
>> I've done this for a handfull of libraries I maintain without any ill 
>> side effect. Beware though when you do this you must carefully inspect 
>> new upstream releases for any ABI breakage.
> 
> If upstream changes its mind and starts doing shared libraries, you are
> in trouble. So it is better, in my opinion to work with upstream to try
> to have shared libraries, than try to do your own, except when you are
> sure that upstream is dead and nobody will restart the project.
> 

Agreed, you should always ask upstream but in some cases, upstream is 
either dead or simply refuses todo dynamic libs (plib for example).

Regards,

Hans




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