Re: Strange FTBFS for ffmpeg-debian on hppa
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Reinhard Tartler <siretart@debian.org> wrote:
> "Thibaut VARENE" <varenet@debian.org> 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/
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