On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 07:44:41PM +0200, Anssi Hannula wrote:
However, this prevents linking of a shared library to the static ncurses
on archs that require shared code to be PIC, for example on x86_64.
Previously this has probably worked by accident (i.e. code was PIC even
without -fPIC flag), but with ncurses version 5.5 file lib_initscr.o in
libncurses.a is no more PIC on x86_64 and produces the following error
when it is tried to link against from a shared library (example from vlc
compilation):
In this case, it sounds as if you're complaining that a packager changed
options, or that the compiler/linker are changed. I'm not sure. There's
nothing that prevents you from setting $CFLAGS to -fPIC and building a
custom version.