[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] pic working with x86

[D Richard Felker III]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 10:52:32AM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> >
> >Rejected, the conditional compilation code looks all wrong, but most
> >importantly PIC has no use in mplayer. All it does is make it
> >incredibly slow. If you have some reason for trying to do this, please
> >explain, but otherwise I don't think we'll be interested.
> To make a long story short, some people requested that feature to allow 
> mplayer prelinking... And since gentoo is about choices, if somebody is 
> willing to avoid most of the speed to have a gain on startup... well so 
> be it.

Prelink is useless for mplayer since it's not c++ and (almost) all the
libs it links to are local static linked copies anyway. If you want
the benefits of prelink just add -static to cflags.

Rich