[MPlayer-dev-eng] Linking mplayer fails

[Alex Romosan]

Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> writes:

> No, that will completely break it! The point is to detect whether the
> (assembler) code we create must be PIC, not forcing the compiler to
> generate PIC code!
> PIC is not something we should _ever_ enable by default as your
> suggestion does, but only if we have to.

so how exactly is your test supposed to work? why would gcc just
generate position independent code if you don't ask it to?

--alex--

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