[nas] issue about libaudio.so

[Jon Trulson]

On 8 Nov 2002, Andreas Voegele wrote:

> Date: 08 Nov 2002 20:35:38 +0100
> From: Andreas Voegele <voegelas at users.sourceforge.net>
> To: nas at radscan.com
> Subject: Re: [nas] issue about libaudio.so
> 
> Jon Trulson writes:
> 
> > On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > > Adding -lXau causes problems for me in Debian - the build fails on
> > > architectures (like HPPA) where library code _must_ be built with
> > > position-independent code (-fPIC). Debian don't ship a .so version
> > > of libXau, just libXau.a.
> 
> This may be a bug in Debian.  According to XFree86's linux.cf, X11
> should be built with SharedLibXau set to YES under HPPA:
> 
>  #  ifdef HPArchitecture
>  [...]
>  #   define SharedLibXau		YES
>  #  endif /* HPArchitecture */
> 
> It seems that the Debian maintainers have changed this setting.
> Probably they use the same configuration on all architectures.
> 
> > 	I'm going to guess that the Xau (Authentication Utilities) were
> > moved somewhere else in debian - perhaps libX11?
> 
> Only libXau.a seems to exist under Debian (which is the default on the
> i386 architecture according to linux.cf and X11.tmpl).
> 

	Ahh... So should I undo this change then?


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