Package: x264 Version: 2:0.116.2042+git178455c-1 Severity: wishlist Bug forwarded from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919509
Seems that according to Policy ยง10.2, we need to document why we are not building the shared library with -fPIC in the file README.Debian and get consensus on that on the debian-devel mailing list. The reason is that x264 uses a lot of hand written assembler, and upstream takes care to use non-pic code only on architectures that support this. Btw, the same applies to the libav* packages. Cheers, Reinhard -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919509 Title: non-PIC libraries To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/x264/+bug/919509/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
