Branden Robinson (branden@progeny.com) said: 
> The tests were conducted using a patched version of 4.1.0 for Debian and
> Progeny that works around a problem with PIC symbols being absent in static
> libraries, which powerpc, ia64, and hppa (among possible others) do not
> tolerate.  At the same time, PIC symbols in X server modules cause the X
> server to segfault.  I'll be submitting this patch to XFree86 shortly.

That's easily fixed with config hackery. I'm surprised this hasn't
been added yet.

Bill