[Ffmpeg-devel] Using ffmpeg libs in an OSS project is a nightmare

[Rich Felker]

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:24:17PM -0700, Jacob Meuser wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 01:13:18PM +0200, Balatoni Denes wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > vas?rnap 07 augusztus 2005 12.43-kor Dave Airlie ezeket a bolcs gondolatokat 
> > fogalmazta meg:
> > >  It should be no problem building shared libs for ffmpeg without PIC,
> > > we don't use -fPIC to build Mesas OpenGL libraries and drivers due to
> > > the perceived speed loss. 
> > That's a valid point, so let me wrap up the discussion by referring to the 
> > previous emails about manpower.
> 
> it might not be needed on linux/x86 when linking to a program, but
> there are platforms and situations where PIC is _needed_.

This is never a fundamental limitation of the architecture, but a
buggy (missing feature) dynamic linker.

Rich