On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Thibaut VARENE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> This means that the --extra-cflags switch is not set anymore. However, >>> investigating the buildlog more closely, there are multiple occurances >>> of "-fPIC -DPIC", one from the "extra-cflags" and one from the upstream >>> makefiles in the -9 build. In the -10 build, none of the two appear. >> >> ffmpeg will not build on hppa (and ia64 and alpha, among others, fwiw) >> without enabling PIC. >> >> HTH > > Well, I think I "solved" it now. Upstream was impressively reactive to > this ftbfs and applied a patch to the configure script that enables PIC > on hppa. I imported that patch into the current debian package and will > be part of the next upload.
This shouldn't be a hppa-only fix. Building/linking non-PIC shared libraries is just *wrong* and will fail miserably on most architectures but x86. HTH -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
