[Ffmpeg-devel] build broken again...

François Revol revol
Mon May 9 18:53:57 CEST 2005


> Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 02:32:11AM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> >> On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 12:35:09PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> >> > On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:08:08PM +0200, Fran?ois Revol wrote:
> >> 
> >> > > 
> >> > > OPTFLAGS=-O3 -Wall -Wno-switch -DPIC -fomit-frame-pointer
> >> > > 
> >> > > (with PIC of course)
> >> > 
> >> > PIC does not work, afaik. Stop insisting on using it.
> >> 
> >> PIC does work, and it is needed some places (ok, not if you don't
> >> use shared libraries, but that is another discussion/flame war).
> >
> > Exactly, not needed. Also, shared libraries work fine without PIC.
> 
> Non-PIC shared libraries only work with some (dynamic) linkers.  I've
> seen quite a few that don't work.  Go ahead, tell me they suck.  I
> don't care.

They would also force the loaders to use copies of text segments of 
those instead of sharing the same if they are loaded twice or at 
different locations.
Yes I know you have 2GB of RAM but not everyone has or can.

Fran?ois.





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