[MPlayer-users] Svn 34933 fails while trying to link on Fedora 17 beta x86_64

[stan]

On Mon, 21 May 2012 22:28:27 +0200
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:

> On Sun, May 20, 2012 at 01:04:13PM -0700, stan wrote:

> > demux_rtp.cpp:(.text+0xbc9): undefined reference to
> > `RTSPClient::describeURL(char const*, Authenticator*, unsigned
> > char, int)'
> 
> Fixed by disabling LIVE555 if such an incompatible version is
> detected. I am kind of considering to leave it at that, since at
> least on Debian LIVE555 is only available as .a files. Together with
> the fact that these .a files are also incompatible with -fpie (which
> I'd like to make the default at some point) I'd say for security
> reasons it's better to force everyone to look at and if necessary fix
> any alternatives to it. Trying to summarize the above less technical:
> If Debian publishes a security update to LIVE555 you can only profit
> from it by recompiling MPlayer and LIVE555 is incompatible with some
> security hardening methods.

Thanks for the update.  Seems that all versions will be incompatible in
the future as live555 phase out the synchronous in favor of the
asynchronous interface.

On Fedora, the library is installed in both formats.

libliveMedia.a
libliveMedia.so
libliveMedia.so.0
libliveMedia.so.2012.04.27