[Pkg-octave-devel] Re: Patch for using system's FTGL in OctPlot

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Shai Ayal <shaiay at gmail.com> [2006-01-28 08:41]:

> I was thinking about the problem with FTGL. I am no expert on linux
> libraries and loaders, but what I do know is that octplot is NOT
> dynamically loaded -- it is a stand-alone application which is forked
> from a DLD. Is that enough to require PIC code in all of it's
> libraries?

You are fully right.  I misunderstood the problem at first and thought
that the octplot executable was dynloaded.  I am not completely sure, but
I think this executable can be compiled without the PIC option.

As regards FTGL becoming a shared library in Debian, see the bug report
below, in which the package maintainer argues why he would not do so:

    http://bugs.debian.org/315330
    
-- 
Rafael