[MPlayer-users] Why is MPlayer shown as "shared library"?

[Roberto Ragusa]

On 10/09/2013 09:18 AM, Marcin 'Rambo' Roguski wrote:
>> But MPlayer shows as "shared library", which seems weird.
> 
> As your distro's MIME magic file supplier.
> 
> Here's mine
> /usr/bin/mplayer: ELF 32-bit LSB executable

Artifact of -fPIC? -fPIE?

On my Fedora:

/usr/bin/mplayer: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32,
BuildID[sha1]=0x..., stripped

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