On Sa, Jan 21, 2012 at 04:38:32 (CET), Jamie Strandboge wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> $ lintian x264_0.120.2127+gitf33c8cb-2ubuntu2_i386.changes:
> E: libx264-120: shlib-with-non-pic-code 
> usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/sse2/libx264.so.120
> E: libx264-120: shlib-with-non-pic-code usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libx264.so.120

What is the problem with those?

Note that x264 uses a *lot* of hand written assembler, and carefully
uses non-pic code only on architecture where possible.


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