[MPlayer-dev-eng] More -fPIC fun

[Ivan Kalvachev]

I took a look at the patch.
The only part of it, that is in MPlayer CVS is libmpeg2 and
because of the resent upgrade it is already fixed this way:

#if !defined(PIC) && !defined(__PIC__)

The rest of the patch is about libavcodec that is part of
FFmpeg project.
I must say that I am supriced to see such kind of bug in libavcodec,
as it IS library. Probably the -DPIC compiler flag solves the problem
for it ;)

I recomend you to post this mail and to ffmpeg maillist (sf.net).

Finnaly. Compiling MPlayer with -fPIC
IS VERY BAD IDEA. You are loosing about 5% of the performance and
that's why mplayer tries to compile everything staticaly.

Don't forget that we don't support manually overrided CFLAGS, etc... ;)

Wish You Best
   Ivan Kalvachev
  iive

p.s. Next time include and the patch. The bug itselfs looks like
caused by some hardened-gcc.

Chris White said:
> MPLayer and -fPIC don't seem to be getting along to well.
>
> I have a Gentoo bug report that points the issue out:
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51853
>
> Please look this over as I believe it will have some useful information
> in getting MPlayer pic aware.
>
> Thanks ahead of time.
>
> Chris White