[XviD-devel] xvidcore yasm build won't link w/ ffmpeg

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On 27 Jan 2006 at 11:46, sean darcy wrote:
> On 1/26/06, Edouard Gomez <ed.gomez at free.fr> wrote:
> > The xvidcore assembly is not position independent code, and as amd64
> > ABI requires code to be PIC in a shared library, that's why the last
> > stage ld pass bails out about using data directly without using rip to
> > reference it in a PIC manner.
> >
> > --
> 
> Is there any reason xvidcore assembly is not PIC? Is it difficult to
> make it PIC? Is it just a matter of changing the parameters for
> calling yasm?

i've been fixing media libs for textrels for a while now,
for xvid, see http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90287 .
it's not up-to-date but should give you an idea about how
difficult it is.