From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christine Caulfield Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:54:21 +0100 Subject: [Cluster-devel] [PATCH] Fix libdlm static build In-Reply-To: References: <486CCEBE.3050809@redhat.com> <1215107637.23062.51.camel@localhost.localdomain> <486DCF26.6070609@redhat.com> Message-ID: <486DE53D.4090605@redhat.com> List-Id: To: cluster-devel.redhat.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008, Christine Caulfield wrote: > >> Lon Hohberger wrote: >>> On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 14:06 +0100, Christine Caulfield wrote: >>> >>>> I don't understand the problem you are trying to fix here. Having >>>> PIC objects in the dynamic library and non-PIC in the static is >>>> perfectly standard practice. >>>> >>> >>> Well, you can't build a loadable module using a static library w/o >>> building PIC. >> >> Good. Then build against the dynamic one like you're supposed to! > > Generally this is right, we still want to ship a working version of the > static one :) You still haven't said just what it is that is broken about the static library. Given that my test programs in dlm/tests/usertest all use it, it can't be totally broken surely ?? -- Chrissie