[Ffmpeg-devel] build broken again...

[Måns Rullgård]

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.

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