[Ffmpeg-devel] build broken again...

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Monday 09 May 2005 18:53, Fran?ois Revol wrote:
> > 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.
>
> They would also force the loaders to use copies of text segments of
> those instead of sharing the same if they are loaded twice or at
> different locations.
> Yes I know you have 2GB of RAM but not everyone has or can.

-> they should be loaded at the same location in the virtual address space of 
every process

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Michael