[MPlayer-dev-eng] More -fPIC fun

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Sat, 2004-08-14 at 21:28, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Saturday 14 August 2004 20:02, Ivan Kalvachev wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks, that clears up something I've been wondering but been to afraid to ask,
> about -fPIC killing performance. Gentoo supposedly being pro-optimization
> and such, I couldn't quite figure out why the hell they were trying to force
> -fPIC and not let mplayer configure give them nice set of optimized
> CFLAGS....
> 

I just checked, and cannot see where Gentoo force -fPIC - they do
remove -fPIC from the latest ebuilds (in case the user did add it to
his CFLAGS), although I cannot see why, as CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS are unset
anyhow before ./configure && make ...


Cheers,

-- 
Martin Schlemmer
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