[Ffmpeg-devel] build broken again...

[matthieu castet]

Hi,

Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 01:07:48PM +0200, Erik Slagter wrote:
> 
>>On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 16:07 -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
>>
>>>Other way around: non-pic only fails on broken and idiotic archs
>>>wasting speed. Speed is what matters; memory doesn't. And you won't
>>>waste much memory unless you're running a bloated gui system anyway,
>>>since most libs are only loaded very few times.
>>
>>If you're going to load each dynamic library as many times as the
>>programs that use them, you might as well use static libraries. No, that
>>does not mean I now favor these.
> 
> 
> Actually static libraries are much better in this case, and actually
> in many real-world cases even with PIC. With static libs, only the
> functions of the library that are actually used get stored in the
> binary and loaded, as opposed to the whole .so being mapped.

And if there is a bug in a library, you should recompile all the apps 
that use it. Nice...

Matthieu