[Ffmpeg-devel] Re: [PATCH] Fix compilation when using --disable-opts

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 01:47:32AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 00:28 +0200, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> 
> > As I see I haven't answered to your first question about how we build
> > pic libs on x86_32 :
> >     # Make it use pic always since we don't need textrels
> >     sed -i -e "s:LIBOBJFLAGS=\"\":LIBOBJFLAGS=\'\$\(PIC\)\':" configure
> 
> Btw that comment seems wrong/weird - other systems do not "need"
> textrels any more than Gentoo, they use them because the PIC version is
> slow on x86 (and PIC does cause the same slowdown on Gentoo too, so you
> don't "need" them only if you don't need performance).

Isn't it funny/ironic to see ricers like Gentoo do that? :)

Diego