Re: pkg/52494: ffmpeg text relocations, i386-8.0_BETA, i386-8.99.1

[David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/52494; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-pbugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: pkg/52494: ffmpeg text relocations, i386-8.0_BETA, i386-8.99.1
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 08:50:52 +0000

 On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 08:45:01AM +0000, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
  >  On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 04:35:01AM +0000, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
  >  >  I wouldn't be surprised if other operating systems made -fPIC the
  >  >  default and that's why they don't have the same issue, certainly
  >  >  Ubuntu now defaults to making PIE binaries and needs to explicit
  >  >  disable otherwise.
  >  
  >  Unlikely. They very likely just don't care about the text relocations.
  >  You know, "performance".
 
 There must be logic in the "build system" to choose not to use -fPIC
 based on machine, or it wouldn't work at all on amd64.
 
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 David A. Holland
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