Bug#837489: antlr: Please build libantlr.a with -fPIC

[tony mancill]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 01:16:32AM +0200, Balint Reczey wrote:
> Source: antlr
> Version: 2.7.7+dfsg-7
> Severity: important
> User: balint at balintreczey.hu
> Usertags: pie-bindnow-20160906
> Justification: makes gpt FTBFS with extra hardening
> Affects: gpt sqlitebrowser
> 
> Dear Maintainers,
> 
> During a rebuild of all packages in sid, gpt
> failed to build on amd64 with patched GCC and dpkg. The root
> cause seems to be that libantlr.a is shipped as a non-PIC library.

Hi Balint,

The libantlr-dev package is shipping two artifacts in /usr/lib: 

  /usr/lib/libantlr-pic.a
  /usr/lib/libantlr.a


Can the gpt and sqlitebrowser builds reference the libantlr-pic
library?  Or is the request to *only* ship the -fPIC library?

Cheers,
tony
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