Re: Bug#657019: Please document why the package includes non-PIC code
Reinhard Tartler <siretart@tauware.de> writes:
> Bug forwarded from https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919509
> Seems that according to Policy §10.2, 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.
Sounds good to me. This is exactly the sort of package that can sometimes
benefit from this and is pretty much in the center of the reason for that
exception.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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