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

[sean darcy]

On 2/7/06, pageexec at freemail.hu <pageexec at freemail.hu> wrote:
> 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.
>

Yuck.  That's waay harder than I expected.

sigh


sean