[FFmpeg-devel] Build problem

[Måns Rullgård]

Reimar D?ffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:

> On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 09:25:46AM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
>> Art Clarke <aclarke at xuggle.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Hi folks,
>> >
>> > I installed yasm on our Mac build boxes today, and noticed the
>> > following error doing x86_64 builds:
>> >
>> >>> ld: pointer in read-only segment not allowed in slidable image, used in dispatch_tab_sse from libavcodec/x86/fft_mmx.o
>> >
>> > I was wondering if people already knew why this occurs (a perusal of
>> > the archives suggested not).  If I don't have yasm installed or
>> > available on the path the build works fine.  Any thoughts or anyone
>> > else seeing this?
>> 
>> Yes, Apple is stupid as usual.  What that error message means is that
>> it doesn't allow relocations in read-only sections, which is utterly
>> silly.
>
> Well, in that specific case it might also be because the data gets
> placed in .text and not .rodata on OSX, supposedly because of alignment
> issues.

Wasn't there a hack for that?  Also, if that is the problem, using
latest yasm svn version should have a fix IIRC.

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