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

[Reimar Döffinger]

On 10.10.2013, at 05:31, bat guano <batguano999 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> My system is 32 bit. :-(
> 
> Hello again.
> 
> In configure -h it shows:-
> "--enable-relocatable   enable compiling as relocatable/PIE executable [disable]"
> 
> I've compiled again with "./configure --disable-relocatable".
> 
> It seens to have solved the problem.
> Look here ---> http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/7027/tskx.png
> 
> Is it OK to use this config option with my 32 bit system?
> Or will it break something?

Why would you want to do that? It will reduce the security of your system, and really all applications should be behaving like MPlayer, for almost all the only reason to not build as PIE for 64 bit is the developers being lazy.