On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:07:31PM +0200, g�nter geiger wrote: > > My feeling is that there is no shared library because the upstream authors > do not have established shared library versioning, which makes maintaining > the package (and those that depend on it harder).
Do you mean they do not have a stable API / ABI? Not having a shared library isn't going to make those problems go away. > But, is there a reason ffmpeg is not compiled with -fPIC by default ? Yes, it might make things slower on some arches because it requires extra instruction. But most of this can actually be avoided. Kurt
